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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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
Education
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Lifts
Much
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Life
Aging
Regard
Higher
Trouble

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Create and stir other people to create.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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The only way out is through.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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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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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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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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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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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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