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Love Quotes by Robert Frost

72 Love quotes by Robert Frost

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Robert Frost imagines a boy swinging birches, turning ordinary trees into playful symbols of love. He writes about a sky loved in all its moods and about a God recognized in art. His verses often ask how many experiences must happen before love truly reaches us.

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We love things we love what they are.

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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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We love the things we love for what they are.

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

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Love him a lot-don't dump him or her for someone else. It is called cheating.

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

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Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...

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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round

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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To…

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Only where love and need areone, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed every really done For Heaven…

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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine…

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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For…

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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other…

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It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins…

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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears,…

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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused…

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“I may have wept that any should have died Or missed their chance, or not have been their best, Or been their…

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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a…

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“Monotony? Have we not always had the same stars and the same sky above us, changing only in its shades of blue…

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“Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought…

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“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view…

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“He thought he kept the universe alone; For all the voice in answer he could wake Was but the mocking echo of…

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“To Earthward" Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived…

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“The Telephone When I was just as far as I could walk From here today There was an hour All still When…

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“Lovers, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. When the…

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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

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All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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I never take my own side in a quarrel.

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,…

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

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…

It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

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