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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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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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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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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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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The best way out is always through.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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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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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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