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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
Delight
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Wisdom
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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An idea is a feat of association.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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You can't get too much winter in the winter.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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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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Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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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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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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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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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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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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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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