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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
Gloomy
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Ends

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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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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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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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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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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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