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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

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

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• An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Ideas

  "The Notebooks of Robert Frost".

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• Earth would soon
  Be uninhabitable as the moon.
  What for that matter had it ever been?
  Who advised man to come and live therein?

  Robert Frost

  Moon, Men, Earth

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  Robert Frost

  Lonely, Men, Boss

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• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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  Inspiration, Poetry, Delight

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Spring, Wind

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Mom, Fathers Day

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

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• The artist in me cries out for design.

  Robert Frost

  Artist, Design, Artistic

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

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• The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  Robert Frost

  Business, Drinking, Alcohol

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• In spring more mortal singers than belong
  To any one place cover us with song.
  Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Spring, Robins

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

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• Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Water, Confusion, Confusing

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

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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Confusion, Delight, Ends

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.
  Contemplate glory. There will be a light.
  Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Light, Glory

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

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• It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Taken, Facts

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• ... A nation has to take its natural course
  Of Progress round and round in circles
  From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
  Until the eddy of it eddies out.

  Robert Frost

  Kings, Circles, Progress

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

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• I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

  Robert Frost

  Kids, Cowboy, Intellectual

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• And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Gossip, Religion

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• Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

  Robert Frost

  Injustice, Mercy

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

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• Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

  Robert Frost

  Advice, Agnostic

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• Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Thinking, Fire

  "Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)

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• The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

  Robert Frost

  Dog, Silly, Pups

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

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• If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Liberty, Fit

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• I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Teacher, Mathematics

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• If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiveness, Long, People

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

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