The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROSTA bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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The test is always how we treat the poor.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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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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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father s. He’s more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
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What we live by we die by.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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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 just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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