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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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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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Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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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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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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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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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Nature's first green is gold.
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States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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Let's get my incantation right: I wish I may, I wish I might Give earth another satellite.
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There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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