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Quotes from In the Clearing — Robert Frost

1874–1963 United States

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It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing.

In the Clearing (1962)

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling
To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

In the Clearing (1962)

Till we came to be
There was not a trace
Of a thinking race
Anywhere in space.

In the Clearing (1962)

“Well, who begun it?”
That's what at the end of a war
We always say not who won it,
Or what it was foughten for.

In the Clearing (1962)

Unless I'm wrong
I but obey
The urge of a song:
I'm—bound—away!
And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died.

In the Clearing (1962)

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

In the Clearing (1962)

I am assured at any rate
Man's practically inexterminate.
Someday I must go into that.
There's always been an Ararat
Where someone someone else begat
To start the world all over at.

In the Clearing (1962)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Frost (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.