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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
Poem
Begins
Delight
Figure
Wisdom
Desire
Makes
Ends

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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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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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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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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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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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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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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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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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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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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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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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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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We love the things we love for what they are.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
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