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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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. – Robert Frost

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Fear
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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people. – Robert Frost

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Land
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. – Erica Jong

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The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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Poetry

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry. – John Donne

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Poetry

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. – Joseph Joubert

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. – Ambrose Bierce

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