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• How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Apples, 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 best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  Robert Frost

  Being Yourself, People, Inspire

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• The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

  Robert Frost

  Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

  "Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

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• All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

  Robert Frost

  Mind, Association, New Thought

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

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• I always entertain great hopes.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Hope, Business

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

  Robert Frost

  Horse, Views, Purpose

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• The rose is a rose,
  And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes
  That the apple's a rose,
  And the pear is, and so's
  The plum, I suppose.
  The dear only knows
  What will next prove a rose.
  You, of course, are a rose -
  But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Rose, Plums

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

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• Many lovers have been divorced
  By having what is free enforced.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Lovers, Divorced

  Robert Frost (1943). “A Witness Tree”

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• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Taken, Writing

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Butterfly, Monarch Butterfly

  Robert Frost, “Blue-Butterfly Day”

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• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Eye, Sight

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• You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

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• The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

  Robert Frost

  People

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Frost (1977). “North of Boston: poems”, Dodd Mead

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• Of all crimes the worst
  Is to steal the glory
  From the great and brave,
  Even more accursed
  Than to rob the grave.

  Robert Frost

  Brave, Stealing, Glory

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

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• Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

  Robert Frost

  Giving, Heaven, Glimpse

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

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Ears, Icy

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
  Throws down in front of us is not to bar
  Our passage to our journey's end for good,
  But just to ask us who we think we are.

  Robert Frost

  Journey, Thinking, Tree

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• End is a gloomy word.

  Robert Frost

  Ends, Gloomy

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• Don't be agnostic - be something.

  Robert Frost

  Religion, Agnostic

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• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Break Up, Breakup

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• To be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Society

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

  Robert Frost

  Letting Go, Heart, Sleep

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

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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