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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

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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
Invent
Cents
Meant
Nobody
Money
Remember
Ever
Icy
Every
Cent

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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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