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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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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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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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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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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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