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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.

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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
Think
Fool
Thinking
Style
Word
Newness
Lasts
Fools
Last
Dress
Upon
Dresses
Thought
Towns
Must
Somewhere

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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 much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
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Create and stir other people to create.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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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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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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