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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
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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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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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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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
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But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.
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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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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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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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