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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
Space
Ails
Moderns
Sick

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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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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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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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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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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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A turning point in modern history.
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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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