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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

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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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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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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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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 society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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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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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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