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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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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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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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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
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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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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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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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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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