"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with…" — Robert Frost

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

— Robert Frost

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385 Quotes by Robert Frost

Robert Frost has 385 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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