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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
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Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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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 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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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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