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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

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
Craving
Sought
Affection
Overpowering

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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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