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Robert Frost
72 QuotesQuotes by Robert Frost
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
"These 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."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"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?"
"I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better."
"The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition."
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"We love the things we love for what they are."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference."
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."