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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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Eight
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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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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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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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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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 out is always through.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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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 am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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