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

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
Despair
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Poetry
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Clever

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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.
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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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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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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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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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