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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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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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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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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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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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