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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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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.
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It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
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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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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.
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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
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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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The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
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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.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...
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The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
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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.
Robert Frost
