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

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  Love, Life, Strength

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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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.

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  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.

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  Art, Believe, Writing

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• The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

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  Self Confidence, Views, Losing

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• All great things are done for their own sake.

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  Done, Sake, Great Things

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• There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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  Food, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

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  Life, Attitude, Memorial

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• We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

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  Clever, Philosophy, Secret

  Witness Tree (1942) "The Secret Sits"

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• A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

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  Stars, Men, Soul And Body

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

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• The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

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  Rain, Flower, Garden

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

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• O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

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  Morning, Autumn, Land

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.23, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

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  Courage, Littles, Venture

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• Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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  Education, Life Changing, Aging

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• Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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  Poetry, Renewal, Settings

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• The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

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  Love, Life, Lying

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• There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

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  Fighting, Hands, Stones

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

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• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

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• I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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  Self, Self Education, Stills

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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  Life, Forgiveness, God

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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• You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

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  Inspirational, Hate, Differences

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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  Life, Fall, Acceptance

  Vogue, March 14, 1963.

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• What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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  Hope, Expectations, Waiting

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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  Blessing, Cash, Happy Thoughts

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