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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Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.
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If it doesn't kill you or someone else its not a problem, just one of lifes hiccups.
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Everything must change, everything must move forward.
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You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
