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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
Robert Frost
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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
California
Robert Lee Frost
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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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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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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A turning point in modern history.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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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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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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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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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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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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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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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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