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Robert Frost
I met a...
I met a Californian who would
Talk California --a state so blessed
He said, in climate, none had ever died...
Love is an...
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Source:
-- Robert...
Freedom lies in...
Freedom lies in being bold.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...
Like a piece...
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in...
I often say...
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...
If society fits...
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Source: In Webster's...
Nature does not...
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a...
Half the world...
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say...
One aged man...
One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.
Source: An Old Man's Winter...
I would have...
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Man that is...
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
Source: In
No tears in...
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Source: Collected Poems, The Figure...
I hold it...
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
People are inexterminable...
People are inexterminable -- like flies and bedbugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices --...
If you don't...
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
My Sorrow, when...
My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She...
Piling up knowledge...
Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you...
I never dared...
I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Pressed into service...
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Source: The Self-Seeker.
--...
In three words...
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Source:...