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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They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
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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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The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
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An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.
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Install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
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"Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
