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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.

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

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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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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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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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