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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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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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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.
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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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