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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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
Safe
Unless
World
Loose
Metaphor
Educated

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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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The only way out is through.
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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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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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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