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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
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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The only way out is through.
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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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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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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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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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