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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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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Men
Style
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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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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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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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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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To be social is to be forgiving.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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