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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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School
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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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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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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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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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