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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
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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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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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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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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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