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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
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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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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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