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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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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
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Robert Lee Frost
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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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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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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