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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

Robert Frost

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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
Mathematics
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Education

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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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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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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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