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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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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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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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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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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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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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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 can't get too much winter in the winter.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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