Robert Frost Quotes, Mean Quotes, Littles Quotes

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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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

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

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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 have miles to go before I sleep.

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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

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

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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

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Create and stir other people to create.

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I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

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