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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

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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
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Poem
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Delight
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Wisdom
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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One age is like another for the soul.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion and then there's science and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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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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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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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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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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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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