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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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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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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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