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Landwirt, Lehrer, Lyriker, erhielt 4 x den Pulitzer-Preis (USA, 1874 - 1963).

Robert Lee Frost · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Robert Lee Frost wäre heute 150 Jahre, 8 Monate, 9 Tage oder 55.041 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.03.1874 in San Francisco
Gestorben am 29.01.1963 in Boston
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder

• . . . Life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open.

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• 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.' 'I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve.'

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• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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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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• And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope.

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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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• Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.

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• By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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• Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend.

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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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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• I have been one acquainted with the night.

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• I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

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• I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.

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