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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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Wisdom
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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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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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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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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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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