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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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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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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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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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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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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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The only way out is through.
Robert Frost
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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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 figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
Robert Frost
States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
Robert Frost
Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
Robert Frost
God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
Robert Frost
The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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