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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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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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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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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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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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The only way out is through.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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What we live by we die by.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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