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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
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Metaphor
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World

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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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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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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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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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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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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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