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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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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
Father
Parenting
Mother
Democrat
Always
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Love
Son
Deserve
Republican
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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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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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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A turning point in modern history.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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