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> [Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/our-life-runs-down-in-sending-up-the-clock-the-brook-runs-down-in/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

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> [But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/but-what-would-interest-you-about-the-brook-it-s-always-cold-in/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/127/robert-frost-371_brook_but-what-would-interest-you-about-the-br_843222.png)

> [Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/our-life-runs-down-in-sending-up-the-clock-the-brook-runs-down-in-2/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

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## Other authors on Brooks

## More by Robert Frost

> [The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-brain-is-a-wonderful-organ-it-starts-working-when-you-get-up-in/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/when-i-see-birches-bend-to-left-and-right-i-like-to-think-some-boy-s/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-promising-young-poets-the-hopefuls-i-d-name-richard-wilbur-peter/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/lord-i-have-loved-your-sky-be-it-said-against-or-for-me-have-loved-it/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/let-him-that-is-without-stone-among-you-cast-the-first-thing-he-can/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/it-is-only-a-moment-here-and-a-moment-there-that-the-greatest-writer/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/and-of-course-there-must-be-something-wrong-in-wanting-to-silence-any/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/there-are-two-kinds-of-teachers-the-kind-that-fill-you-with-so-much/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-rose-is-a-rose-and-was-always-a-rose-but-now-the-theory-goes-that/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/forgive-o-lord-my-little-jokes-on-thee-and-i-ll-forgive-thy-great-big/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/what-an-exciting-age-it-is-we-live-in-with-all-this-talk-about-the/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [The footpath down to the well is healed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/the-footpath-down-to-the-well-is-healed/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/there-is-the-fear-that-we-shan-t-prove-worthy-in-the-eyes-of-someone/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/it-s-god-i-recognised-him-from-blake-s-picture/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

> [Create and stir other people to create.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-frost/create-and-stir-other-people-to-create/)

[Robert Frost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-frost/)

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