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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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

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The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

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Freedom lies in being bold.

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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

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I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism too much. Create and stir other people to create!

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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

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There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

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

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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.

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I am one who has been acquainted with the night

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