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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 15

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Sorry, Taken, Journey

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

Men, World, Someday

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

Dog, Noses, Source

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

Expression, Effort, Reaching

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Country, Russia, America

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

Space, Sick

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

House, Secret, Tone

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Hurt, Long, Weight

Robert Frost, Robert Newdick (1932). “Robert Frost”

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

Earth, Get Away

"Birches" l. 48 (1916)

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

Courage, Air, Stalemate

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

An idea is a feat of association.

Humor, Carpe Diem, Ideas

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Dream, Birch Trees

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.218, Harvard University Press

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Fire, Ice, Poetry

"Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Poetry, Way, Lost

Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Life, Book, School

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

Flower, Apples, Rose

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Race, Pace, Chance

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Ifs

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

God, Believe, Light

Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

Apples, Tree, Neighbor

"MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

Time, Sky, Clock

Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Book, Poetry, Common

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Bird, Tunes, Noon

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

War, Giving, Nuisance

Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Drama, Needs, Form

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.99, Harvard University Press

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