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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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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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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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