Robert Lee Frost

United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
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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.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
I hold it the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

1935 Address at U.C. Berkeley
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out.

Mending Wall, 1914
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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