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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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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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The only way out is to go through
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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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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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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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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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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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