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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
Poem
Writing
Discovering

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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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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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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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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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The only way out is through.
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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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