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Robert Frost
One could do...
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Source: 'Birches'
-- Robert...
The reason worry...
The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Just specimens is...
Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't...
Talking is a...
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure...
Modern poets talk...
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by...
So dawn goes...
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
Source:
-- Robert Frost,...
There never was...
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and...
Originality and initiative...
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Source: The Figure a Poem...
The best things...
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the...
Most of the...
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The chief reason...
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for...
They cannot scare...
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars -- on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me...
Poetry is a...
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Source: In Elizabeth S. Sergeant,...
The difference between...
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for...
No memory of...
No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being...
The first thing...
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to...
Thinking isn't agreeing...
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
Source: Quoted in George...
Poetry is what...
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
The middle of...
The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.
No wonder poets...
No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
So much more business-like than business men.
Their wares are so much...