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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 19

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

People, Democracy, Chance

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Rolling, Evolution, Barrels

Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

War, Taken, Poetry

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

People, Bed, Cracks

The Observer (London), March 29, 1959.

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Song, Learning, May

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

As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?

Soon Enough, Evil, Knows

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

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Freedom, Men, Speech

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

Writing, America, Long

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

Children, Fear, War

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

The footpath down to the well is healed.

Time, Healing, Footpaths

Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.2, Courier Corporation

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

Change, Should, Restraint

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

Dark, May, Mood

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

God, Ocean, Light

David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Funny, Father, Humorous

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

White, Tails, Said

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

Strength, Strong, Numbers

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

Summer, Winter, Rivers

Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Teaching, Writing, Cities

Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Sleep, House, Politics

Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

Country, Business, Ocean

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

Baseball, Waste, My Family

Let me be the one To do what is done.

Done, Let Me

Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.387, Harvard University Press

Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

Love, Knowing, Poetry

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

Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

Running, Nature, Hate

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Stars, Real, Heart

Robert Frost, “Fireflies In The Garden”

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