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Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment — Robert Frost

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

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

He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees. — 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

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. — Robert Frost

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

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — 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

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

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

We love the things we love for what they are. — Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. — Robert Frost

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost