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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
Poet
Interested
Afraid
Family
Young
Pitcher
Right
Baseball
Life
Later
Waste

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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 society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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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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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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