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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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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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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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