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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
— Robert Frost
Let's get my incantation right:
"I wish I may, I wish I might"
Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost
"I wish I may, I wish I might"
Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost
My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
— Robert Frost
We ran as if to meet the moon.
— Robert Frost
Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
— Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the on less traveled by,
and that has made all the differernce — Robert Frost
I took the on less traveled by,
and that has made all the differernce — Robert Frost
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
— Robert Frost
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition. — Robert Frost
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition. — Robert Frost
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
— Robert Frost
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
— Robert Frost
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
— Robert Frost
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
— Paul Muldoon
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
— Robert Frost
Before now poetry has taken notice
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost
Of wars, and what are wars but politics
Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
— Robert Frost
When clever people ask me where
I get a poem, I despair. — Robert Frost
I get a poem, I despair. — Robert Frost
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost
We love the things we love for what they are.
— Robert Frost
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
— Robert Frost