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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
Dies
Inspirational
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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End is a gloomy word.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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