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

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Wisdom
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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A turning point in modern history.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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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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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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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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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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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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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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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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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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Don't be agnostic - be something.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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