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1. "We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth." ~ Robert Frost
2. "We love the things we love for what they are." ~ Robert Frost
3. "The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells meThat I need learn to let go with the heart." ~ Robert Frost
4. "Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twiceI think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice." ~ Robert Frost
5. "Fragmentary BlueWhy make so much of fragmentary blueIn here and there a bird, or butterfly,Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--Though some savants make earth include the sky;And blue so far above us comes so high,It only gives our wish for blue a whet." ~ Robert Frost
6. "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." ~ Robert Frost
7. "Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space." ~ Robert Frost
8. "How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?" ~ Robert Frost
9. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~ Robert Frost
10. "I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down." ~ Robert Frost
11. "They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true." ~ Robert Frost
12. "I am not a teacher, but an awakener." ~ Robert Frost
13. "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
14. "I could give all to Time except -- exceptWhat I myself have held. But why declareThe things forbidden that while the Customs sleptI have crossed to Safety with? For I am There,And what I would not part with I have kept." ~ Robert Frost
15. "I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed." ~ Robert Frost
16. "Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world." ~ Robert Frost
17. "I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school." ~ Robert Frost
18. "Oh, come forth into the storm and routAnd be my love in the rain." ~ Robert Frost
19. "For I have had too muchOf apple-picking:I am overtiredOf the great harvest I myself desired." ~ Robert Frost
20. "Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so." ~ Robert Frost
21. "Our life runs down in sending up the clock.The brook runs down in sending up our life.The sun runs down in sending up the brook.And there is something sending up the sun.It is this backward motion toward the source,Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in,The tribute of the current to the source.It is from this in nature we are from.It is most us." ~ Robert Frost
22. "Easy does it." ~ Robert Frost
23. "The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what an artist has managed to make objective is to come on him presumptuously and render ungraceful what he in pain of his life had faith he had made graceful." ~ Robert Frost
24. "I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest." ~ Robert Frost
25. "I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better." ~ Robert Frost
26. "So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may choose something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid." ~ Robert Frost
27. "He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through" ~ Robert Frost
28. "If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere, From being No one up to being Someone, Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose mercy to you rather than to others Won't bear to critical examination. Stay unassuming. If for lack of license To wear the uniform of who you are, You should be tempted to make up for it In a subordinationg look or toe, Beware of coming too much to the surface And using for apparel hat was meant To be the curtain of the inmost soul." ~ Robert Frost
29. "Di hutan, kulihat dua cabang jalan terbentang. Kuambil yang jarang dilalui orang. Dan itulah yang membuat segala perbedaan" ~ Robert Frost
30. "Life: It goes on." ~ Robert Frost
31. "If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. Neither one alone without the other under it will do." ~ Robert Frost
32. "The heart's gone out of it, why keep it up." ~ Robert Frost
33. "In fetid darkness still to live and run--And all for nothing it had ever doneExcept forget to go in fear perhaps.No one would know except for ancient mapsThat such a brook ran water." ~ Robert Frost
34. "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." ~ Robert Frost
35. "A Dream Pang I HAD withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway; And to the forest edge you came one day (This was my dream) and looked and pondered long, But did not enter, though the wish was strong:You shook your pensive head as who should say, ‘I dare not—too far in his footsteps stray— He must seek me would he undo the wrong. Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all Behind low boughs the trees let down outsideAnd the sweet pang it cost me not to call And tell you that I saw does still abide. But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof, For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof." ~ Robert Frost
36. "The heart can think of no devotionGreater than being shore to the ocean-Holding the curve of one position,Counting an endless repetition." ~ Robert Frost
37. "I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain." ~ Robert Frost
38. "When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloudAnd goes down burning into the gulf below,No voice in nature is heard to cry aloudAt what has happened. Birds, at least must knowIt is the change to darkness in the sky.Murmuring something quiet in her breast,One bird begins to close a faded eye;Or overtaken too far from his nest,Hurrying low above the grove, some waifSwoops just in time to his remembered tree.At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe!Now let the night be dark for all of me.Let the night be too dark for me to seeInto the future. Let what will be, be." ~ Robert Frost
39. "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
40. "Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within." ~ Robert Frost
41. "Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere." ~ Robert Frost
42. "En dos palabras puedo resumir cuanto he aprendido acerca de la vida: Sigue adelante." ~ Robert Frost
43. "Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,Possessed by what we now no more possessed." ~ Robert Frost
44. "I end not far from my going forthBy picking the faded blueOf the last remaining aster flowerTo carry again to you." ~ Robert Frost
45. "Something sinister in the toneTold me my secret must be known:Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,Word I had no one left but God." ~ Robert Frost
46. "The line storm clouds fly tattered and swift,The road is forlorn all day,..." ~ Robert Frost
47. "He said the dead had souls, but when I asked himHow that could be - I thought the dead were souls,He broke my trance. Don't that make you suspiciousThat there's something the dead are keeping back?Yes, there's something the dead are keeping back." ~ Robert Frost
48. "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
49. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost
50. "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
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