To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.Robert Frost
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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I have my fancies: it runs in the family.
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It's Pollyanna now or death.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue.
Robert Frost
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases ... but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.
Robert Frost
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