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Quote by Robert Frost
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own m

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. Its hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. – David Antin

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its makers background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. – Thomas Lynch

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasnt that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. Id already been translating French poetry, Id been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. – Paul Auster

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