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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
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Delight
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Wisdom
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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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We ran as if to meet the moon.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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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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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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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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