Robert Frost quotes - page 12

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. No one can really hold that the ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. It has denouement. It has an outcome that though unforeseen was predestined from the first image of the original mood-and indeed from the very mood. (Robert Frost)
I may have wept that any should have died Or missed their chance, or not have been their best, Or been their riches, fame, or love denied; On me as much as any is the jest. I take my incompleteness with the rest. View quote
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Say something to us that we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says "I burn." View quote
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This verse that in acknowledgement I bring Goes back to the beginning of the end Of what had been for centuries the trend; A turning point in modern history. View quote
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They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields. View quote
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What was that whiteness? Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something. View quote
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They've tried to grasp with too much social fact Too large a situation. View quote
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He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. View quote
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O Star (the fairest one in sight) We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud -. View quote
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You must have form - performance. The thing itself is indescribable, but it is felt like athletic form. View quote
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A man must partly give up being a man With womenfolk. (Robert Frost)
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. View quote
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I'm not going to explain anything personal any more. View quote
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Some poor fool has been saying in his heart Glory is out of date in life and art. View quote
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Back out of all this now too much for us, Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken off Like graveyard marble sculpture in the weather, There is a house that is no more a house Upon a farm that is no more a farm And in a town that is no more a town. View quote
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There is a singer everyone has heard. View quote
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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I am in a place, in a situation, as if I had materialized from cloud or risen out of the ground. There is a glad recognition of the long lost and the rest follows. Step by step the wonder of unexpected supply keeps growing. The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave the future with against the day when we may Want to strike a line of purpose across it for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being mechanically straight. View quote
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It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. View quote
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I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great. View quote
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A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. View quote
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Well, who begun it? (Robert Frost)
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don't you say what you mean?" View quote
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Accept no one's definition of you, define yourself. View quote
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. View quote
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. View quote
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