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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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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. – Eugenio Montale

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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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Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. – W.B. Yeats

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