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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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
Throat
Poetry
Taking
Writing
Way
Love
Life

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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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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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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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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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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