Robert Frost Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.

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In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

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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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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

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A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living.

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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

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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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We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

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I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

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