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Let me be the one To do what is done.

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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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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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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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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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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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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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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What we live by we die by.
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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