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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
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Delight
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Poetry
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Wisdom
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Literature
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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The only way out is to go through
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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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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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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