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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.

Robert Frost

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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
Baseball
Unless
Write
Nothing
Flatters
Writing
Pitched
Assumed
Prose
Distinction

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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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