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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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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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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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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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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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