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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

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
Beginning
Nation
Pieces
Nations
Makes
Geography
Home
Territory
Good
Piece
Travel

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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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The footpath down to the well is healed.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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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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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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