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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
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Life
Throat
Poetry
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Way

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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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