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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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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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The only way out is through.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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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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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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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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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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