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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
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Robert Lee Frost
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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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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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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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 never take my own side in a quarrel.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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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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