Robert Frost Quotes, Confusion Quotes, Delight Quotes

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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I play better tennis because the court is there.

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As a confirmed astronomer I'm always for a better sky.

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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.

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One age is like another for the soul.

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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

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O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

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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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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.

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I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

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A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.

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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

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A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

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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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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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