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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Robert Frost
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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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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost
I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
Robert Frost
No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
Robert Frost
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
Robert Frost
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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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.
Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbors.
Robert Frost
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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Life is tons of discipline.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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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.
Robert Frost
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
Robert Frost
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
Robert Frost
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
Robert Frost
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
Robert Frost
For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Robert Frost
