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Writing a poem is discovering.

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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
Discovering
Poem
Writing

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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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