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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
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Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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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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Writing a poem is discovering.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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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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The only way round is through.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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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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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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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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