Robert Frost

Robert Frost

"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
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"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
Robert Frost
"“We love the things we love for what they are.”"
Robert Frost
"“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”"
Robert Frost
"“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.”"
Robert Frost
"“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”"
Robert Frost
"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense."
Robert Frost
"“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”"
Robert Frost
"But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too crowding, too confusing— Too present to imagine."
Robert Frost
"Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do."
Robert Frost
"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."
Robert Frost
"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
Robert Frost
"No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm."How often already you've had to be told,Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below."I have to be gone for a season or so."
Robert Frost
"They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves."
Robert Frost
"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."
Robert Frost
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
Robert Frost
"What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all."
Robert Frost
"All thought is a feat of association."
Robert Frost
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
Robert Frost
"But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight."
Robert Frost
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work."
Robert Frost
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