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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

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
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Society
Freedom
Enough
Comfortably
Fits
Fit
Liberty

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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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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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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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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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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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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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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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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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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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