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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

Robert Frost

Work, Heart, Together

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.214, Harvard University Press

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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

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Hope, Failure, Pride

North of Boston (1914) "Death of the Hired Man"

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Nature's first green is gold.

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Gold, Green, Firsts

Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

Robert Frost

Science, Towns, Telescopes

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Robert Frost

Drama, Needs, Form

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

Robert Frost

Horse, Wall, Character

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Robert Frost

Book, Poetry, Common

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Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

Robert Frost

War, Taken, Poetry

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.

Robert Frost

Children, Hands, Names

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.241, Everyman's Library

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Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.

Robert Frost

Love, Stars, Staying

Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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Love has earth to which she clings.

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Love, Earth

Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.84, Penguin

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Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art.

Robert Frost

Love, Art, Strong

Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

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Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Robert Frost

Sleep, House, Politics

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

Robert Frost

Nature, Machinery, Whole

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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... War is for everyone, for children too.
I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.
The best way is to come uphill with me
And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

Robert Frost

Children, Fear, War

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?

Robert Frost

Stars, Children, War

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.

Robert Frost

Tree, Doe, Care

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark.
Petals I may have once pursued.
Leaves are all my darker mood.

Robert Frost

Dark, May, Mood

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss.

Robert Frost

Silence, Tree, Toss

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.

Robert Frost

Night, Civilization, Cities

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?

Robert Frost

Life, Marriage, Men

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

Robert Frost

Believe, Sound, Poet

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Ants are a curious race

Robert Frost

Race, Ants, Curious

Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Robert Frost

Funny, Humor, Cutting

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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

Robert Frost

Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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Born: March 26, 1874
Died: January 29, 1963
Occupation: Poet
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