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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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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and Ill forgive Thy great big joke on me. – Robert Frost

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What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth? – Robert Frost

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for arts sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago. – Allen Tate

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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Pounds translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. – Robert Morgan

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I dont see that same intimacy happening very much today. – Layne Staley

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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