Robert Frost Quotes, Expression Quotes, Effort Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

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Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

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I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.

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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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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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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

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