# New Hampshire

- Author: [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md)
- Quotes: 19
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire

## Quotes

> Love at the lips was touch
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> As sweet as I could bear;
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> And once that seemed too much;
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> I lived on air

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/love-at-the.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md)

> We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
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> Do we know any better where we are,
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> And how it stands between the night tonight
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> And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
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> How different from the way it ever stood?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/weve-looked-and.md)

Topics: [doubt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/doubt.md)

> My little horse must think it queer
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> To stop without a farmhouse near
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> Between the woods and frozen lake
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> The darkest evening of the year.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/my-little-horse.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> The birds that came to it through the air
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> At broken windows flew out and in,
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> Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh
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> From too much dwelling on what has been.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/the-birds-that.md)

Topics: [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md)

> The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
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> New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/the-vermont-mountains.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> Whose woods these are I think I know.
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> His house is in the village, though;
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> He will not see me stopping here
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> To watch his woods fill up with snow.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/whose-woods-these.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
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> But I have promises to keep,
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> And miles to go before I sleep,
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> And miles to go before I sleep.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/the-woods-are.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [perseverance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perseverance.md)

> How often already you've had to be told,
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> Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.
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> Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
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> I have to be gone for a season or so.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/how-often-already.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> He gives his harness bells a shake
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> To ask if there is some mistake.
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> The only other sound's the sweep
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> Of easy wind and downy flake.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/he-gives-his.md)

Topics: [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)

> Do you know,
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> Considering the market, there are more
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> Poems produced than any other thing?
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> No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
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> So much more businesslike than businessmen.
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> Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/do-you-know.md)

Topics: [poetry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry.md)

> Now no joy but lacks salt,
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> That is not dashed with pain
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> And weariness and fault;
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> I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark
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> Of almost too much love,
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> The sweet of bitter bark
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> And burning clove.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/now-no-joy.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [suffering](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering.md)

> And then we saw him bolt.
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> We heard the miniature thunder where he fled,
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> And we saw him, or thought we saw him, dim and gray,
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> Like a shadow across instead of behind the flakes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/and-then-we-saw.md)

Topics: [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md)

> Nature's first green is gold,
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> Her hardest hue to hold.
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> Her early leaf's a flower;
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> But only so an hour.
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> Then leaf subsides to leaf.
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> So Eden sank to grief,
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> So dawn goes down to day.
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> Nothing gold can stay.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/natures-first-green.md)

Topics: [transience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience.md)

> Why make so much of fragmentary blue
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> In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
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> Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
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> When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/why-make-so-much.md)

Topics: [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md)

> Some say the world will end in fire,
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> Some say in ice.
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> From what I've tasted of desire
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> I hold with those who favor fire.
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> But if it had to perish twice,
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> I think I know enough of hate
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> To say that for destruction ice
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> Is also great
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> And would suffice.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/some-say-the.md)

Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> If one by one we counted people out
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> For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long
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> To get so we had no one left to live with.
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> For to be social is to be forgiving.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/if-one-by-one.md)

Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)

> The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/the-snake-stood.md)

Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md)

> Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
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> Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
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> Deeper down in the well than where the water
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> Gives me back in a shining surface picture
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> Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike
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> Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
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> Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
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> I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
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> Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
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> Something more of the depths – and then I lost it.
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> Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
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> One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
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> Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
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> Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
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> Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/others-taunt-me-with.md)

Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/the-way-a-crow.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature.md)