Robert Frost Quotes, Boys Quotes, Thinking Quotes

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

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If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

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Let me be the one To do what is done.

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

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Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

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... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.

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People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

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The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

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

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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

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