Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
ROBERT FROSTGood fences make good neighbors.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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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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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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I always entertain great hopes.
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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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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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