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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.

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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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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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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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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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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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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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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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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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