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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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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
Knew
Write
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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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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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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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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What we live by we die by.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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