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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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Stories
Firsts
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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