I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Quote by Robert Frost

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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than...

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than...

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly...

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly...

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about,...

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about,...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...

Entertain great hopes

Entertain great hopes

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being...

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being...

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners...

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make...

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what...

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and...

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and...

Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.