Robert Frost Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

Robert Frost

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• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Turn
  • Employees

• I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Spring

• Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Family
  • Success
  • Society

• I loathe exercise. And I hate gyms. I've never had a personal trainer.

  

  Gemma Chan
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Opinion
  • Phenomenon
  • Pops

• The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • May
  • Effort

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

  

  Allen Tate
  • May
  • History
  • Alone

• We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Poem
  • Says
  • Restate

• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Done
  • Brain
  • Tears

• Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Up
  • Pressure
  • Poem

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Poem

• To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Seeing
  • Throat
  • Foreheads

• If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Think
  • Change
  • Woman

• Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

  

  William P. Young
  • Persons
  • Forget
  • Forgiveness

• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

  

  John Milton
  • Music
  • Language
  • Poem

• Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Dreams
  • Creatures
  • Poem

• Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Force
  • Fingers

• Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Stop
  • Listening

• I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Aggressive
  • Swing
  • Bat

• I don’t know that doom is a very nice word. It does suggest, I think, shuddering and cold sweat. There was none of that, though, about Coco’s welcome to it when it opened my front door and walked in, nor can it be fairly said that there was any of it about mine. True I had a feeling, unusual so soon after breakfast, that I was in the hands of God, but otherwise I wasn’t aware of any particular discomfort. Nor did I remember, till later, that the only other time in my life I had had this feeling was when I was dressing to go to the party in Italy at which I met my first husband. It is a sinking feeling. Perhaps husbands have never altogether agreed with me.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • I Remember
  • Sweat
  • Husbands

• A poem begins with a lump in the throat.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poem
  • Throat
  • Lump