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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Ears
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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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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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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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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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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What we live by we die by.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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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 am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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