Robert Frost Quotes

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• If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
• The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
• What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
• But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold…
• Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give…
• And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's…
• The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
• Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this…
• Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
• Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole…
• Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
• All the fun is in how you say a thing.
• It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The…
• What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

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