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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
Turning
Modern
Point
History
America

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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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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary then your grammar and your punctuation
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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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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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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