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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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Tell
Art
Stories

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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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