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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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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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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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