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Robert Lee Frost war ein amerikanischer Dichter und vierfacher Pulitzer-Preisträger.

✵ 24. März 1874 – 29. Januar 1963
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Robert Lee Frost zitat: „Der Grund, warum Sorgen mehr als Arbeit Menschen töten, ist, dass sich die Menschen mehr sorgen als sie arbeiten.“

„Zwei Wege trennten sich im Wald, und ich –
Ich nahm den Weg, der kaum begangen war,
das hat den ganzen Unterschied gemacht.“

Variante: Im Wald zwei Wege boten sich mir dar, ich ging den, der weniger betreten war. Dies veränderte mein Leben!
Variante: Im Walde zwei Wege boten sich mir dar und ich ging den, der weniger betreten war - und das veränderte mein Leben.
Quelle: Gedicht "The Road Not Taken". In der Übersetzung von Lars Vollert.

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Robert Lee Frost zitat: „Eine Mutter braucht zwanzig Jahre, um aus ihrem Jungen einen Mann zu machen, und eine andere Frau macht aus ihm in zwanzig Minuten einen Narren.“
Robert Lee Frost zitat: „Glück macht durch Höhe wett, was ihm an Länge fehlt.“

„Glück macht durch Höhe wett, was ihm an Länge fehlt.“

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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Titel des mit den Worten: "Oh, stormy stormy world" beginnenden Gedichts. Erstveröffentlichung in The Atlantic Monthly September 1938 p. 317 http://www.unz.org/Pub/AtlanticMonthly-1938sep-00317

„Bildung ist die Fähigkeit, fast alles anhören zu können, ohne die Ruhe zu verlieren oder das Selbstvertrauen.“

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - in Reader's Digest April 1960, laut Oxford Essential Quotations, ed. susan Ratcliffe, oxfordreference.com http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735240.001.0001/q-oro-00003970

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“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923)
General sources

“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”

Variante: Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.

“Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.”

Variante: Come over the hills and far with me
And be my love in the rain.
Quelle: Complete Poems Of Robert Frost, 1949

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”

As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
General sources
Kontext: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.”

An earlier unattributed version of this quip appeared in What Man Can Make of Man (1942) by William Ernest Hocking: "He lends himself to the gibe that he is 'so very liberal, that he cannot bring himself to take his own side in a quarrel.'" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_liberal_is_a_man_too_broad_minded_to_take_his_own_side_in_a_quarrel/
Quelle: As quoted by Guy Davenport (The Geography of the Imagination) at page x in A Liberal Education http://books.google.de/books?id=Dly0RgUc0YcC&pg=PR10&dq=A+liberal+is+a+man+too+broadminded+to+take+his+own+side+in+a+quarrel.&hl=de&sa=X&ei=Xt_OUZSGJcjLswaApYDQBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20liberal%20is%20a%20man%20too%20broadminded%20to%20take%20his%20own%20side%20in%20a%20quarrel.&f=false by Abbott Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tide Pool Press, 2010).
Quelle: As quoted by Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, 15 January 1961, New York (NY) Times, Section SM page 6 https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/15/archives/story-of-the-poem-the-story-of-the-poem.html?searchResultPosition=1

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

As quoted in Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) by Elizabeth S. Sergeant, Ch. 18
1960s
Variante: Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

“It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Variante: A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Kontext: It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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

As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 419
Undated

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

Variante: Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

“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.”

As quoted in Vogue (14 March 1963)
1960s
Variante: 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.

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