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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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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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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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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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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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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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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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