Robert Frost Quotes

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

Life, Everything, Words

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Work, May, Working

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Education, Losing, Almost

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Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost

Freedom, Lies, Bold

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost

Mother, Fool, Woman

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Love, Desire, Desired

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

Work, Morning, Brain

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Sleep, Before, Keep

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Life, Person, Sometimes

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

Forgive, Sense, Talk

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Nothing, Saying, Keep

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Age, Birthday, Woman

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Sleep, Deep, Before

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Inspirational, Best, Through

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost

Family, Life, Greatest

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Rain, Place, Weather

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Wisdom, Begins, Ends

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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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.
Robert Frost

Short, Story, Quarrel

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry, Words, Thought

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Poetry, Wrong, Sense

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Confused, Mixed

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

Beautiful, Rain, Dark

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 26, 1874

Died: January 29, 1963

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