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Robert Frost


American
March 26, 1874
Poet
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The only way round is through.


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Tags: Way Only Through
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.


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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.


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Tags: Out Means Service
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.


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Tags: Man House Fill
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.


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Tags: Freedom You Your
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.


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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.


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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.


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Tags: Home You Go
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.


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Tags: You Your Love
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.


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Tags: Work People Them
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.


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Tags: About Up Life
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Tags: Life Will His
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.


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Tags: Go Before Keep
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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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Tags: Me More Would
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.


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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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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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Tags: You Where Back
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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Tags: Funny About He
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
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Tags: First Writing Off
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Tags: Make Years Man
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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Tags: Which How He
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Tags: Power History Who
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
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Tags: Me She Here