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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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Playwright
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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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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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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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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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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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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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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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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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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