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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
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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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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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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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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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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