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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

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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
Sky
Neither
Wrong
Right
Time
Luminary
Proclaimed
Clock

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One age is like another for the soul.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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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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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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End is a gloomy word.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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