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We're either nothing or a God's regret.

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
God
Regret
Either
Nothing

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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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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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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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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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