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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

And were an epitaph to be my story Id have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lovers quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost

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Epitaphs
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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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Society
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In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost

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Life
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry

I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. – Jerzy Kosinski

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My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones. – Condoleezza Rice

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