Quotes by Robert Frost

Robert Frost

American poet

Lived from: 1874 - 1963

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 26 march 1874 Died: 29 january 1963

Quotes 81 till 86 of 86.

• What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?

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• Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  ― Robert Frost
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• You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

  ― 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.

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• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• ungrammatical
• homesickness
• lovesickness
• democrat
• because
• writing

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