Robert Frost Quotes
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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We're either nothing or a God's regret.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.
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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?