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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
Funny
Eight
True
Worse
Better
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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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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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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