Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROSTTo be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
More Robert Frost Quotes
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What we live by we die by.
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
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The only certain freedom’s in departure.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
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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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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
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All great things are done for their own sake.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
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