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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Robert Frost

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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
Poetry
Everybody
Looking
Write
Inspirational
Nearly
Writing
Shouldn
Something
People
Brave

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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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End is a gloomy word.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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