Robert Frost Quotes, Love Quotes, Hate Quotes

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

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In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.

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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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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.

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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

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The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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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.

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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

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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.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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