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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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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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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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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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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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