Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books
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A plow, they say, to plow the snow.Robert Frost
What is this talked-of mystery of birth; But being mounted bareback on the earth.
Robert Frost
All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.
Robert Frost
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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