Robert Frost Quotes, Expression Quotes, Effort Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

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I always entertain great hopes.

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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.

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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.

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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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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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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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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

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Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

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