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

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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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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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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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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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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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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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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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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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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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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