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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
Round
Rounds
Wisdom
Work
Way
Recreation

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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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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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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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