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Robert Frost Quotes - Page 7

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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

Icy, Changed, Find Me

Robert Frost (2015). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

Education, Teacher, Mathematics

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Lonely, Men, Boss

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

Order, Rate, Amount

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. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Hate, Thinking, Fire

"Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Injustice, Mercy

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

Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

Spiritual, Creativity, People

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

Eye, Evil, Looks

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

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

Moon, Men, Earth

Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acceptance, Long, Maintenance

"Real Social Science: Applied Phronesis". Book by Bent Flyvbjerg, p. 72, April 19, 2012.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

Choices, One Word

Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

To be social is to be forgiving.

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Society

Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Love, Heart, Acceptance

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Wall, Knowledge, Science

"MendingWall" l. 32 (1914)

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Love, Life, Writing

Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

Nothing gold can stay.

Inspirational, Life, Gold

Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

Writing a poem is discovering.

Writing, Discovering

1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

Children, Flower, Home

Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Behinds, Hard

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Advice, Agnostic

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Family, Mom, Fathers Day

Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

What we live by we die by.

Inspirational, Live By, Dies

Robert Frost (2004). “North of Boston”, p.68, 1st World Publishing

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Writing, Talking, House

Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

Art, Brave, Fine

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