Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Quote by Robert Frost

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All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up...

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up...

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one...

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, And I'll forgive Thy great big one...

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take...

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...

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and...

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and...

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...

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for...

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for...

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

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...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized...

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with...

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with...