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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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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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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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