Robert Frost Quotes

• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.

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  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Spring

• The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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  Tags in Greatest, Take

• You’re searching, Joe, for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.

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  Tags in Ending, Beginning

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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  Tags in Poetry

• A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

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• Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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• Earth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.

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  Tags in Earth

• Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept…. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

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  Tags in Acceptance

• The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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  Tags in Worry

• The only way round is through.

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  Freedom lies in being bold.

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

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• I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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• It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

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  Topics in Wedding

• You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad

• It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God’s last ‘Put out the Light’ was spoken.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.

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Robert Frost (142)

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

About

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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