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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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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

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The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

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If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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

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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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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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So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

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

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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

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

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