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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Robert Lee Frost
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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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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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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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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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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The only way out is to go through
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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Nature's first green is gold.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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