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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Wisdom
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Literature
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Delight
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Poetry
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Clarification

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What we live by we die by.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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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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The best way out is always through.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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