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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.

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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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Giving
Poetry
Wish
Another
Earth
Give
Incantation
May
Satellite
Might
Satellites

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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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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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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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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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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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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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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
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