Inspiring Quotes by Robert Frost - Page 2

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"Freedom lies in being bold"

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep"

"College is a refuge from hasty judgment"

"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"

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with"

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman"

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair"

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married"

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on"

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia"

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor"

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"

"Hell is a half-filled auditorium"

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense"

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

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them"

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting"

"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true"

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination"

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"

"The artist in me cries out for design"

"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second"

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on"

"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"

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"

"I always entertain great hopes"

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power"

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader"

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