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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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