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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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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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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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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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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.
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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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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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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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