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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

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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
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Apart
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Evil
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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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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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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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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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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