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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

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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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Cowboys
Gandhi
Indians
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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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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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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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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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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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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