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

  Robert Frost

  People

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• You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
  We have one loving and one hating hand.
  The loving's made to hold each other like,
  While with the hating other hand we strike.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Hate, Hands

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

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

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Inspiration, 4th Of July

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

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Thinking

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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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• It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom
  Of having children after having had them,
  So there is nothing we can do about it
  But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

  Robert Frost

  Children, Should Have, Choices

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

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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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• I go to school the youth to learn the future.

  Robert Frost

  School, Youth

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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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• Create and stir other people to create.

  Robert Frost

  People

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• Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Evil, Looks

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

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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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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

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• Don't be agnostic - be something.

  Robert Frost

  Religion, Agnostic

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