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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

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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
Ails
Moderns
Sick
Space

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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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The only way out is through.
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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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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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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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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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