Robert Frost
Poet
1874-03-26 – 1963-01-29
Robert Frost was an American poet known for verse rooted in New England speech and rural life. He won four Pulitzer Prizes and became one of the most widely read poets in the United States.
Quotes by Robert Frost
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.Dread fifty above more than fifty below.I have to be gone for a season or so.
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Men work together,' I told him from the heart,'Whether they work together or apart.
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They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
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Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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The TelephoneWhen I was just as far as I could walkFrom here todayThere was an hourAll stillWhen leaning with my head against a flowerI heard you talk.Don't say I didn't for I heard you sayYou spoke from that flower on the window sill-Do you remember what it was you said ''First tell me what it was you thought you heard.''Having found the flower and driven a bee awayI leaned my headAnd holding by the stalkI listened and I thought I caught the wordWhat was itDid you call me by my name Or did you saySomeone said ComeI heard it as I bowed.''I may have thought as much but not aloud.'Well so I came.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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All thought is a feat of association.
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But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.
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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.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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I could give all to Time except -- exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidden that while the Customs sleptI have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,And what I would not part with I have kept.
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Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you are agreedThat life is only life forevermoreTogether wing to wing and oar to oar
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Where had I heard this wind beforeChange like this to a deeper roar?What would it take my standing there for,Holding open a restive door,Looking down hill to a frothy shore?Summer was past and day was past.Somber clouds in the west were massed.Out in the porch's sagging floor,leaves got up in a coil and hissed,Blindly struck at my knee and missed.Something sinister in the toneTold me my secret must be known:Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,Word I had no one left but God.
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Fragmentary BlueWhy make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)
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Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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