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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.

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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
Found
Turned
Laugh
Anybody
Laughing
Wasn
Least
Half
Speak
God

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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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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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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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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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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
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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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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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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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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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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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