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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
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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To be social is to be forgiving.
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Life is tons of discipline.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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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 truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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Create and stir other people to create.
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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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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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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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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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