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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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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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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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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 dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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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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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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