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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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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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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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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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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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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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