"But strictly held by none, is loosely bound……" — Robert Frost
"But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware."
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Robert Frost
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385 Quotes by Robert Frost
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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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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who…
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of…
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom…
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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
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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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