Top 100 Robert Frost Quotes
#1. There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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#2. I have remained resentful to this day
When any but myself presumed to say
That there was anything I couldn't be.
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#3. If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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#4. A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
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#5. I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate wilfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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#6. The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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#7. Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
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#8. If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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#9. I play better tennis because the court is there.
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#10. I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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#11. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
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#12. A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look
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#13. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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#14. No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found ...
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#15. An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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#16. The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
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#17. Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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#18. I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
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#19. Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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#20. He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
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#21. Too long I've owed you this apology
For the apparently unmeaning sorrow
You were afflicted with in those old days.
But it was of the essence of the trial
You shouldn't understand it at the time.
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#22. He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, Good fences make good neighbors.
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#23. The reason artists show so little interest
In public freedom is because the freedom
They've come to feel the need of is a kind
No one can give them they can scarce attain
The freedom of their own material ...
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#24. Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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#25. 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
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#26. Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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#27. There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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#28. 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.
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#29. They are that that talks of going
But never gets away.
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#30. Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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#31. It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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#32. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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#33. The sister's face
Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility.
She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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#34. A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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#35. You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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#36. 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.
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#37. Nature's never quite
Sure she hasn't erred
In her vague design ...
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#38. 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?
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#41. Let's get my incantation right:
"I wish I may, I wish I might"
Give earth another satellite.
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#42. Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of what's sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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#45. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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#46. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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#47. Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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#48. Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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#49. To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave.
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#51. Haven't you heard, though,
About the ships where war has found them out
At sea, about the towns where war has come
Through opening clouds at night with droning speed
Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels
And children in the ships and in the towns?
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#52. Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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#53. The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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#54. The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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#55. In three simple words I can sum up all I have learned from life, Life Goes On.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. What an exciting age it is we live in
With all this talk about the hope of youth
And nothing made of youth.
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#59. The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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#60. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours.
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#61. For hard it is to keep from being King
When it's in you and in the situation.
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#62. Men work together," I told him from the heart, "Whether they work together or apart.
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#63. A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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#65. I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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#66. The best way to hate is the worst.
'Tis to find what the hated need,
Never mind of what actual worth,
And wipe that out of the earth.
Let them die of unsatisfied greed ...
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#67. We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could
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#69. A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
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#70. Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth ...
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#71. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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#72. We love the things we love for what they are.
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#73. One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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#74. Let those possess the land, and only those,
Who love it with a love so strong and stupid
That they may be abused and taken advantage of
And made fun of by business, law, and art ...
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#75. Live and let live, believe and let believe.
'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits
Of the one awful God. Just so the saints
Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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#76. Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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#77. The city is all right. To live in one
Is to be civilized, stay up and read
Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise
By waiting up instead of getting up.
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#79. 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.
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#80. A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.
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#81. I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities ...
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#83. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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#84. In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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#85. The Moon for all her light and grace
Has never learned to know her place.
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#86. But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.
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#87. Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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#88. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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#90. My sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be.
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#92. Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.
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#94. One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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#95. Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.
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#96. You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
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#97. Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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#98. My apple trees will never get across
and eat the cones under his pines,I tell him.He only says,Good fences make good neighbors.
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#99. Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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#100. 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.
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