"I was under twenty when I deliberately put……" — Robert Frost
"I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book."
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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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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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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's…
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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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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone.…
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