Robert Frost Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
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What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
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I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.
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Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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If we treated politics like more of a profession, like it should be, we would all be a lot better off.
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It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.
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I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
