Robert Lee Frost

United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
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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.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
In three words I can sum up everything I've ever learned about life: It goes on.

The old dog barks backward without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.

The Span of Life, 1936

Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found that it was ourselves.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
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