Robert Frost Quotes

• No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

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• They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

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• I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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• The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.

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• I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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• A sentence is a sound in itself on which sounds called words may be strung.

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• Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.

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• 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.

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• Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.

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

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• The best way out is always through.

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• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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  Tags in Home, Take, Place

• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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  A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

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• Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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Robert Frost (142)

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

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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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