The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROSTLike a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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Any work of art must first of all tell a story.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
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All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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