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

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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End is a gloomy word.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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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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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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