Robert Lee Frost

United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta

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There are tones of voice that mean more than words.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

Any eye is an evil eye
That looks in on to a mood apart.

A Mood Apart, 1947
Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.

Title of poem, 1942
Education is... hanging around until you've caught on.

January 30, 1963
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on.
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