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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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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
 Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
 I have it in me so much nearer home
 To scare myself with my own desert places.
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Some say the world will end in fire,
 Some say in ice.
 From what I've tasted of desire
 I hold with those who favour fire.
 But if it had to perish twice,
 I think I know enough of hate
 To say that for destruction ice
 Is also great
 And would suffice.-


The land was ours before we were the land's.
 She was our land more than a hundred years
 Before we were her people.-

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


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Never ask of money spent
 Where the spender thinks it went.
 Nobody was ever meant
 To remember or invent
 What he did with every cent.
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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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Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
 That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it.


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My apple trees will never get across
 And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
 He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours.'




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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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 The water comes ashore,
 And the people look at the sea.
 They cannot look out far.
 They cannot look in deep.
 But when was that ever a bar
 To any watch they keep?



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 I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
 I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
 (And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
 I shan't be gone long.--You come too
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 Poetry is what is lost in translation. 
It is also what is lost in interpretation.