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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
-Robert Frost
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
-Robert Frost
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
-Robert Frost
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.
-Robert Frost
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We love the things we love for what they are.
-Robert Frost
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
-Robert Frost
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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.
-Robert Frost
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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.
-Robert Frost
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
-Robert Frost
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
-Robert Frost
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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.
-Robert Frost
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
-Robert Frost
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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
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The best way out is always through.
-Robert Frost
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
-Robert Frost
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
-Robert Frost
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Robert Frost
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.
-Robert Frost
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