A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
- Life
- 1874-1963
- Occupations
- poet, writer, pedagogue
- Notable works
- North of Boston, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve."
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve." 'The Death of the Hired Man' (1914)
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Nature's first green is gold,
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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief; So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
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The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken
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