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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
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Playwright
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Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Baseball
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Nothing
Flatters
Writing
Pitched
Assumed
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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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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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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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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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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