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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

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
Warm
Summer
Cold
Fun
Changed
December
Water
June
Enough
Compared
Thing
Suppose

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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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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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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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The only way round is through.
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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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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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