A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it … - Robert Frost

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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Robert Frost

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. " - W. H. Auden "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.

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The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.

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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

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All the fun is in how you say a thing.

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