Quotes: Favorites Quotes: Author Quotes: Topics Quotes: Collection Sig Services Blueprint Results Process Contact
Background Image
I have just been to a city in the west, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. the whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. but, i don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. it would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
-Robert Frost
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Have Just Been To A City

Robert Frost
I have just been to a city in the west, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. the whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. but, i don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. it would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
Views: 8
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Teaching Writing Cities

More From Robert Frost

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
Filmmaking Filmmaker Ifs
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. but that's not a reason not to write love poetry. some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
Good Love Writing Political
I learned all those jokes in second grade. second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.
Strong Mean Ideas
I don't write jokes first. i write down topics. i think of what i want to talk about, and then i write the jokes - they don't write me... and even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. you might disagree, but you'll listen. and maybe even laugh as you disagree.
Writing Thinking Laughing
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. rome'll decline and fall again, cortés'll lay tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, ewing will sail again, adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and i'll sleep under the corsican stars again, i'll come to bruges again, fall in and out of love with eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. nietzsche's gramophone record. when it ends, the old one plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.
Stars Fall School
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. what previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
Beach Doctors People
Similar Quotes
They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". i think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
Beach Thinking Glasses
Almost 60,000 average americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where, and take on the battle for freedom. average americans, the very americans that our government now and this president does not trust to make a decision on your health care plan. those americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan.
Beach Airplane Government
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
Beach Reality World
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. one should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Patience Beach Nature

Trending Author

Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson
Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens
Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation
Quote AI Helper
Hello! I'm your AI assistant. Ask me anything about quotes or authors!