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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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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
Must
Heart
Grass
Work
Apart
Way
Alone
Within
Gone
Whether
Together

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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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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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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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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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