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Robert Frost quotes

American Poet March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963

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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a... 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 makegood neighbors. Robert Frost
Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be. Robert Frost
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64) Robert Frost
Robert Frost quote: "A good book has no ending"
A good book has no ending Robert Frost
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt. Robert Frost
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. Robert Frost
The Telephone. When I was just as far as I could walk. From here today. There was an hour. All still. When leaning with my head against a flower. I heard you talk. Don't say I didn't for I heard you say. You spoke from that flower on the window sill-Do you remember what it was you said ''First tell me what it was you thought you heard.''Having found the flower and driven a bee away. I leaned my head. And holding by the stalk. I listened and I thought I caught the word. What was it. Did you... Robert Frost
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. Robert Frost
Robert Frost quote: "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and..."
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Robert Frost
Robert Frost quote: "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost
So when at times the mob is swayed. To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star. To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost
Robert Frost quote: "I dwell in a lonely house I know. That vanished many a summer..."
I dwell in a lonely house I know. That vanished many a summer ago. Robert Frost
Too long I've owed you this apology. For the apparently unmeaning sorrow. You were afflicted with in those old days. But it was of the essence of the trial. You shouldn't understand it at the time. Robert Frost
Robert Frost quote: "Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been..."
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night Robert Frost

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