American - Poet | March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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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 person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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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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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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The only way round is through.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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