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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
Blake
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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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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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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