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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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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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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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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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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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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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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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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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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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