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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

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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
Life
Later
Waste
Poet
Interested
Afraid
Family
Young
Pitcher
Right
Baseball

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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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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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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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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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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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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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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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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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An idea is a feat of association.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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