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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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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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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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