"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"Poetry is what is lost in translation."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

Frost, Robert on power   

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."

Frost, Robert on radicals
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Frost, Robert on reason
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"To be social is to be forgiving."

Frost, Robert on society
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"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

Frost, Robert on birth   

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Frost, Robert on books - reading
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."

Unknown, Source on writers and writing
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"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

Lewis, Cecil Day on writers and writing
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"Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading."

Zinsser, William on writers and writing
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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

Feherty, David on attitude
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."

Hill, Benny on complaints and complaining
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on airplane and aviation
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

Bacon, Francis on forgiveness
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on adversity
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

Ellington, Duke on adversity
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Redmoon, Ambrose on courage
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Pound, Ezra on genius
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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"You win only if you aren't afraid to lose."

Aoki, Rocky on failure
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

Rudner, Rita on marriage
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"If music be the food of love; play on."

Shakespeare, William on music
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"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love"

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Our power is not so much in us as through us."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on power
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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