Quote by Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

Other quotes by Robert Frost

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. – Robert Frost

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Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. – Robert Frost

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Acceptance
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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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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. – Margaret Walker

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. – David Lee Roth

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Patience is sorrows salve. – Charles Churchill

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Never was anything great achieved without danger. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. – Saint Augustine

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Why live on the edge when you can jump off it? – Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump

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