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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
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Robert Lee Frost
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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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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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
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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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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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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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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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The sister's face Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility. She wanted to do right. She'd have to think.
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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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