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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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Robert Lee Frost
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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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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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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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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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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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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