Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROSTEarth’s the right place for love. I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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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’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.
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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
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All the fun is in how you say a thing.
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By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
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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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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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