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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
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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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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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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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.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.
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The only way round is through.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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