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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.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Robert Lee Frost
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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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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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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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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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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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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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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