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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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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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The only way round is through.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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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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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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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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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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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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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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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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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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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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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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