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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

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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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Everything
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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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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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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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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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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