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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

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
School
Going
Believe
Teaching

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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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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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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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