Robert Frost citations

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“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 me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.”

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

“My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage…”

“The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length”

“So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.”

“For I have had too much
Of apple-picking:I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.”

“You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.”

“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”

“I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great”

“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”

“A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.”

“For dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true”

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”

“The only way out is through”

“What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.”

“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”

“I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago.”

“For, dear me, why abandon a belief,
Merely because it ceases to be true,
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt,
It will turn true again, for so it goes.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.”

“I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart”

“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.”

“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”

“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.”

“But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future´s sakes.”

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”