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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

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
Apple
Apples
Rose
Flower
Theory
Goes
Always

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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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