Robert Frost Quotes, Ends Quotes

End is a gloomy word.

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But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.

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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

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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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I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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

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Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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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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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

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If one by one we counted people out

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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.

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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

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

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

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What we live by we die by.

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There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

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It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

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Let me be the one To do what is done.

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