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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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The only way round is through.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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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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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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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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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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What we live by we die by.
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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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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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