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ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ... ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are. ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had... ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes. ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon... ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not... ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on. ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff... ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by. ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da... ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future. ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska... ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w... ROBERT FROST