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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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• The only way round is through.

  Robert Frost

  Wisdom, Work, Way

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• Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Silence, Pressure

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• For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

  Robert Frost

  Truth, Belief, Being True

  Robert Frost (1914). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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• It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Blake

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• Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

  Robert Frost

  Sometimes, Wonder, Poet

  1923 'New Hampshire'.

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• Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Country, Art, Nice

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• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Snow, House

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

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• Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
  And that they may be is the only prayer
  Worth praying. May my sacrifice
  Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Prayer, War

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

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• If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

  Robert Frost

  Ideas, Association, Height

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• Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

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  Baseball, Writing, Distinction

  Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

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• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  Robert Frost

  Power, Icy, World

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• So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Mind, May

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.769, Harvard University Press

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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• For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

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• Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
  Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
  Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Poetry, Leader

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

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• There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
  Take nature altogether since time began,
  Including human nature, in peace and war,
  And it must be a little more in favor of man.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, War, Men

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Crazy, Mad, Society

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• I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

  Robert Frost

  Despair, Atheism, World

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

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• Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
  The brook runs down in sending up our life.
  The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
  And there is something sending up the sun.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Running, Sun

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

  Robert Frost

  Glasses, Cider, Ascent

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

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• The only way around is through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Frost, Thomas Fasano (2008). “Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost”, p.40, Coyote Canyon Press

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