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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
Teacher
Education
Mathematics

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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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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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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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