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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
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Common
Experience
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Uncommon
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Poetry

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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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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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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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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.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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