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

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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Ears
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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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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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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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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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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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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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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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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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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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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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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