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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
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Truly
View
Listen
Views
Without
Temper
Self
Educated
Confidence
Losing

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Good fences make good neighbors.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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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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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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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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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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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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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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