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“No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard, Or keeps the end from being hard.Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "Provide, Provide" (1936), st. 6 - 7

“The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Span of Life" (1936)

“Who said it mattered / what monkeys did or didn't understand? / They might not understand the burning-glass. / They might not understand the sun itself. / It's knowing what to do with things that counts.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "At Woodward's Gardens", 1936

“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. My mouth is sealed for the duration of my stay here. I'm not even going to write letters around to explain to collectors my not having had any Christmas card this year. I'm not going to explain anything personal any more.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: Letter to Sydney Cox (3 January 1937), quoted in Robert Frost : The Trial By Existence (1960) by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, p. 351, and Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (1981) by William Richard Evans, p. 223

“The land may vary more; But wherever the truth may be — The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "Neither Out Far nor In Deep'' (1937)

“Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Hardship of Accounting'' (1937)

“Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave, But carries no cry of what is hoped to be. There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Strong Are Saying Nothing'' (1937)

“Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Master Speed"; the last line is Inscribed beneath his wife's name on the gravestone of Frost and his wife, Elinor (1937)

“‘Twas Age imposed on poems Their gather-roses burden To warn against the danger That overtaken lovers From being overflooded With happiness should have it And yet not know they have it.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "Carpe Diem'' (1938)

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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Robert Frost

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Robert Frost's 1939 Essay The Figure a Poem Makes; Preface to Collected Poems)

“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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Robert Frost's 1939 Essay The Figure a Poem Makes; Preface to Collected Poems)

“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”

— Robert Frost

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Robert Frost's 1939 Essay The Figure a Poem Makes; Preface to Collected Poems)

“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 as for love. No one can really hold that the ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends 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. It has denouement. It has an outcome that though unforeseen was predestined from the first image of the original mood-and indeed from the very mood. It is but a trick poem and no poem at all if the best of it was thought of first and saved for the last. It finds its own name as it goes and discovers the best waiting for it in some final phrase at once wise and sad-the happy-sad blend of the drinking song.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: 1930s, The Figure a Poem Makes (1939):
Robert Frost's 1939 Essay The Figure a Poem Makes; Preface to Collected Poems The portion of "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom." is often misquoted as: Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I am in a place, in a situation, as if I had materialized from cloud or risen out of the ground. There is a glad recognition of the long lost and the rest follows. Step by step the wonder of unexpected supply keeps growing. The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave the future with against the day when we may Want to strike a line of purpose across it for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being mechanically straight. We enjoy the straight crookedness of a good walking stick. Modern instruments of precision are being used to make things crooked as if by eye and hand in the old days.”

— Robert Frost

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“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. For myself the originality need be no more than the freshness of a poem run in the way I have described: from delight to wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. Its most precious quality will remain its having run itself and carried away the poet with it. Read it a hundred times: it will forever keep its freshness as a petal 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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Robert Frost's 1939 Essay The Figure a Poem Makes; Preface to Collected Poems)

“When I see young men doing so wonderfully well in athletics, I don’t feel angry at them. I feel jealous of them. I wish that some of my boys in writing would do the same thing. … You must have form — performance. The thing itself is indescribable, but it is felt like athletic form. To have form, feel form in sports — and by analogy feel form in verse. One works and waits for form in both. As I said, the person who spends his time criticizing the play around him will never write poetry. He will write criticism — for the New Republic.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: Originally delivered at a poetry reading at Princeton University (26 October 1937), published in Collected Poems, Prose & Plays (1995)

“The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Gift Outright" (1941)

“Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Gift Outright" (1941)

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“But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To every thing 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.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Silken Tent" (1942)

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: Title of poem (1942)

“Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went — Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament.But no, I was out for stars; I would not come in. I meant not even if asked; And I hadn't been.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "Come In" (1942), st. 4, 5

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Secret Sits" (1942)

“She drew back; he was calm "It is this that had the power," And he lashed his open palm With the tender-headed flower.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Subverted Flower" (1942)

“He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the daylong voice of Eve Had added to their own an oversound, Her tone of meaning but without the words.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same'' (1942)

“We disparage reason. But all the time it’s what we’re most concerned with. There’s will as motor and there’s will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: A Masque of Reason (1945)

“Deliver us from committees.”

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: A Masque of Reason (1945)

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

— Robert Frost

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Quote source: "The Ingenuities of Debt'' (1946)

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