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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Robert Lee Frost
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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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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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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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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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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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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting he must also believe it to be true. - W. H. Auden A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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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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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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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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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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