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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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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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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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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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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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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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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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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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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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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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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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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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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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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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