Robert Frost Quotes, Power Quotes, Icy Quotes

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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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

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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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Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?

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Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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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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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

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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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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

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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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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

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

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