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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
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Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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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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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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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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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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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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