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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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Life
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Built

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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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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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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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What we live by we die by.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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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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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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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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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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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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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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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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