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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

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
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Hate
Ideas
Whole
Anybody
Ought
Read

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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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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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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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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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The only way out is through.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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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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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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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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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 have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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