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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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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.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew.
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.
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