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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

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
Fatherhood
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Mother
Love
Fathering

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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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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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