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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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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 truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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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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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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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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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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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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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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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 own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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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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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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