Robert Frost

Robert Frost

"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."
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"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."
Robert Frost The Poetry of Robert Frost
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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"Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
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"“GATHERING LEAVESSpades 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 crop is a crop,And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?”"
Robert Frost
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"“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”"
Robert Frost
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"“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?”"
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"“INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew— Only more sure of all I thought was true.”"
Robert Frost A Boy's Will
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"“The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.”"
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"“Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street,But not to call me back or say good-bye;And further still at an unearthly height,One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.”"
Robert Frost West-Running Brook
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"“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”"
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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"“The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition.”"
Robert Frost
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"“We ran as if to meet the moon.”"
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"“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”"
Robert Frost
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"“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
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"“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”"
Robert Frost
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
Robert Frost
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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
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"I go to school the youth to learn the future."
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"The only certain freedom's in departure."
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"Freedom lies in being bold."
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