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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Robert Lee Frost
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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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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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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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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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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