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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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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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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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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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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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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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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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