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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.
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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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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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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The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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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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