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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.

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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
Near
Idea
Comes
Ideas
Nothing
Something
Life

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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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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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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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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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An idea is a feat of association.
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