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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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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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End is a gloomy word.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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