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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

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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
California
Robert Lee Frost
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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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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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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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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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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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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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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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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