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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

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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Inspirational
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Life
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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End is a gloomy word.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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