Robert Frost Quotes

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  I turned to speak to God About the world’s despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn’t there.

  Robert Frost

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  Tags in Despair, Turned
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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

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  Tags in Twelve, Faithfully, Eight, Boss, May, Working, Get, Eventually, Hours, Day
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  In three words i can sum up everything i’ve learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learned, Words
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  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Love
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  Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nonsense, Forgive

• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  Robert Frost

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• The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

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• Education is… hanging around until you’ve caught on.

  Robert Frost

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• Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs.

  Robert Frost

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• Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate.

  Robert Frost

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

  Robert Frost

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• The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

  Robert Frost

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

  Robert Frost

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• What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?— If design govern in a thing so small.

  Robert Frost

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• A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman. You’ll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poet—and there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

  Robert Frost

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• The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be— The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.

  Robert Frost

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• It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

  Robert Frost

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• I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

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• Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly fall Has been picked up with stones to build a wall.

  Robert Frost

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• He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.

  Robert Frost

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Robert Frost (142)

Birth:	26th March, 1874
Death:	29th January, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

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Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

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