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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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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, Forever

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

  Robert Frost

  Choices, One Word

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

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• What we live by we die by.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Live By, Dies

  Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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• Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Discovering

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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• Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Stories, Crafts

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• Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

  Robert Frost

  Order, Rate, Amount

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

  Robert Frost

  Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

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• You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Littles, Lost

  "Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

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• Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Gold

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Brave, Fine

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• I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, New York, Emotional

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• Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Men, Style

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

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

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• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

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• When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

  Robert Frost

  Boys, Thinking, Left

  Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

  Robert Frost

  Friendship, People, Feelings

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  Robert Frost

  Positive, Ocean, Heart

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

  Behinds, Hard

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• You can't get too much winter in the winter.

  Robert Frost

  Winter, Too Much, Funny Winter

  Robert Frost (1993). “The Road Not Taken, and Other Poems”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

  Robert Frost

  Blessed, Giving, Giving Back

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• The only way round is through.

  Robert Frost

  Wisdom, Work, Way

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• There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Motivation, Heart

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.301, Harvard University Press

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