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

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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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Believe
Teaching
School

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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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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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Nature is always hinting at us.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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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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