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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 poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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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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Nature's first green is gold.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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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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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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