Robert Frost Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

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The only way out is through.

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More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

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I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

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Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none.

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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

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You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

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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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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

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We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

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