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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Something

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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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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 footpath down to the well is healed.
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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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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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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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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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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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