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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
Writing
Pitched
Assumed
Prose
Distinction
Baseball
Unless
Write
Nothing
Flatters

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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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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 dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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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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