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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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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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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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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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Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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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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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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