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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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• They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

  Robert Frost

  Icy, Changed, Find Me

  Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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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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• More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

  Robert Frost

  Death, Men, Worry

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• The only way out is through.

  Robert Frost

  Christian Inspirational, Anxiety, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Earth

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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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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• Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

  Robert Frost

  Clouds, Waiting, Storm

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• I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Powerful, Writing, Poetry

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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• And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Silence, Courses

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, People, Missing

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

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• O hushed October morning mild,
  Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
  Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,
  Should waste them all.
  The crows above the forest call;
  Tomorrow they may form and go.
  O hushed October morning mild,
  Begin the hours of this day slow.
  Make the day seem to us less brief.
  Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
  Beguile us in the way you know.
  Release one leaf at break of day;
  At noon release another leaf;
  One from our trees, one far away.

  Robert Frost

  Morning, Fall, Heart

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

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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

  Robert Frost

  Wall, Knowledge, Science

  "MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

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• The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Heart, Dust

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.25, UPNE

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• Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

  Robert Frost

  Truth, Atheism, Would Be

  "A Boy's Will and North of Boston".

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• Lord, I have loved Your sky,
  Be it said against or for me,
  Have loved it clear and high,
  Or low and stormy...

  Robert Frost

  Love, God, Sky

  Robert Frost (1947). “Steeple Bush”

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• Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

  Robert Frost

  Night, Tree, Window

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

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• I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Knows

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• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Poetry, Tennis

  Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

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• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  Robert Frost

  Children, Flower, Home

  Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

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• It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, Night, Age

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

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

  Successful, Law, Feet

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• Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

  Robert Frost

  God Knows, Only God Knows, Knows

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