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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
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Writing

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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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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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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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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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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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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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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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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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Freedom lies in being bold.
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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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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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