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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Robert Lee Frost
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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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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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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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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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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The only way round is through.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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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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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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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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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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