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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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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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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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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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