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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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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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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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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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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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