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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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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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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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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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Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
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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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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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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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