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Robert Frost
I am a...
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to...
Happiness Makes Up...
Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.
Source: A Witness Tree,...
Don't be an...
Don't be an agnostic--be something.
Source:
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26...
It should be...
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and...
Humor is the...
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Source: On wit as a form of evasiveness,...
I am not...
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Source: In
Heaven gives its...
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.
Don't ever take...
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Source: In Webster's...
Keep cold, young...
Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty...
I am glad...
I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of...
I go to...
I go to school to youth to learn the future.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I alone of...
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of...
Forgive, O Lord,...
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Life is tons...
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation... Then,...
I never take...
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
Source:
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26...
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...