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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
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Nature
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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 middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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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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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart
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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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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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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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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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The only way round is through.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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