Robert Frost Quotes About Poetry
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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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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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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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A poem begins with a lump in the throat
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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