"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon…" — Robert Frost

"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books."

— Robert Frost

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385 Quotes by Robert Frost

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and…
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to…
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who…
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of…
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom…
And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's…
The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone.…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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