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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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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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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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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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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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