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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
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Butterflies
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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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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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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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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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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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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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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