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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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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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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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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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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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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 my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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