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I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.


Robert Matsui

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ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST