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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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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you cant move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. – Robert Frost

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism its egotism. – Robert Frost

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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. – Robert Frost

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Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine

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