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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
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Flatters
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Pitched
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Prose
Distinction
Baseball
Unless
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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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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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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End is a gloomy word.
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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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