"Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace"……" — Robert Frost
"Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct."
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Robert Frost
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385 Quotes by Robert Frost
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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