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Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
“Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides t...
“The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an e...
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.Bu...
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“We ran as if to meet the moon.”
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before...
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay l...
“I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd ...
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
