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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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The only way round is through.
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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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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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