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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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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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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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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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The best way out is always through.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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