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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
Robert Frost
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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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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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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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An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.
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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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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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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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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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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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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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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