Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. -
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More quotes by Robert Frost
- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
- Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- The best way out is always through.
- The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.