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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

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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
Color
Wife
Music
Men
Life
Sink
Marriage

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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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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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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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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The only way round is through.
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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