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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Nature
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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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 Vermont mountains stretch extended straight New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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