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- Robert Frost Quotes

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
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My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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I go to school the youth to learn the future.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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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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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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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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.
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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
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