# Quote — Robert Frost, New Hampshire

> 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.

- Author: [Robert Frost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost.md)
- Book: [New Hampshire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost#New_Hampshire_(1923)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [truth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/others-taunt-me-with

## More from this book

> 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)