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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
Robert Frost
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Robert Frost
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
Robert Frost
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
Robert Frost
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
Robert Frost
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
Robert Frost
I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.
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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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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
Robert Frost
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
Robert Frost
He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
Robert Frost
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Robert Frost
I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.
Robert Frost
The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
Robert Frost
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
Robert Frost
If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
Robert Frost
Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
Robert Frost
More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
Robert Frost
