Robert Frost Quotes - Page 2

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• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  Robert Frost

  Rights, Political, Icy

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• If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• You're searching...
  For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
  Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
  There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

  Robert Frost (2010). “The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

  Robert Frost

  Pockets, Trouble, Holes

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• Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Hiking, Hints

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Confusion

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• The test is always how we treat the poor.

  Robert Frost

  Tests, Poor, Treats

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Funny, Life

  "A Swinger of Birches: A Portrait of Robert Frost". Book by Sydney Cox, 1957.

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• There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Voice, Tone

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  Robert Frost

  Lost, Interpretation, Poetry Is

  Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)

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• Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

  Robert Frost

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Tolerance, Feelings

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Horse, Business

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

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• Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

  Robert Frost

  Law, Done, Violence

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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• Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

  Robert Frost

  Safe, World, Metaphor

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• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Strength

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• Life is tons of discipline.

  Robert Frost

  Discipline, Life Is

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• All great things are done for their own sake.

  Robert Frost

  Done, Sake, Great Things

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• A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Expression, Effort, Emotion

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Believe, Writing

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