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Robert Frost

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Robert Frost (1874–1963) was an American poet known for his realistic depictions of rural New England life and his command of colloquial speech. Four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Frost is among the most popular and critically acclaimed poets in American history. Lines from poems like "The Road Not Taken" have become part of the cultural fabric.

“I always entertain great hopes.”

— Robert Frost

Great

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“The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

Best

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

— Robert Frost

Design

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

— Robert Frost

Work

“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.”

— Robert Frost

Alone

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

Poetry

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

— Robert Frost

Forgiveness

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.”

— Robert Frost

Best

“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

— Robert Frost

Wisdom

“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”

— Robert Frost

History

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

— Robert Frost

Work

“I always entertain great hopes.”

— Robert Frost

Great

“I go to school the youth to learn the future.”

— Robert Frost

Future

“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

— Robert Frost

Morning

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... 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.”

— Robert Frost

Great

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

— Robert Frost

Change

“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

Life

“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”

— Robert Frost

Power

“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”

— Robert Frost

Funny

“Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.”

— Robert Frost

Life

“The only certain freedom's in departure.”

— Robert Frost

Freedom