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Writing a poem is discovering.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Poem
Writing
Discovering

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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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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A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.
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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.
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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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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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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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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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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes
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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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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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