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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Robert Frost

Heart, Abode, Heart Ache

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

Robert Frost

Book, Artist, Annoyed

"The Figure a Poem Makes". Essay by Robert Frost, 1939.

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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

Robert Frost

Eye, Dark, Night

Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

Robert Frost

Rain, Storm, Love Rain

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

Robert Frost

White, Tails, Said

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Robert Frost

Teaching, Writing, Cities

Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

Funny, Father, Humorous

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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Robert Frost

Men, World, Someday

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

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Robert Frost

Sorry, Taken, Journey

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

Robert Frost

Yesterday, Snow, Months

Robert Frost (2004). “A Boy's Will”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Robert Frost

Rolling, Evolution, Barrels

Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

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People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

Robert Frost

People, Bed, Cracks

The Observer (London), March 29, 1959.

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Let me be the one To do what is done.

Robert Frost

Done, Let Me

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.387, Harvard University Press

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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Robert Frost

Doubt, Belief

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of what's sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

Robert Frost

Running, Nature, Hate

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Robert Frost

God, Ocean, Light

David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Robert Frost

Running, Sun, Clock

928 'West-Running Brook'.

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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

Robert Frost

Quests, May, Seems

Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.262, Everyman's Library

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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Robert Frost

Play, Heaven, Needs

Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem (1992). “Robert Frost: Seasons”, Mjf Books

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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Robert Frost

Baseball, Waste, My Family

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I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

Robert Frost

Flower, Blue, Lasts

Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.18, Penguin

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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Robert Frost

Stars, Real, Heart

Robert Frost, “Fireflies In The Garden”

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Robert Frost

People, Democracy, Chance

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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

Robert Frost

Artist, August, Today

1961 'For John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20 Jan. Snowblindness prevented the aged poet from reading beyond the first three lines on the occasion.

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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Robert Frost

Play, Enemy, Able

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