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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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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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End is a gloomy word.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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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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