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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It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
