What did Robert Frost mean by: A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor’s point of view. - Robert Frost Poet · USA Copy
+ So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Dream, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ Ends and beginnings there are no such things. There are only middles. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023February 7, 2024, Robert Frost, Beginnings And Ends, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. Feraz Zeid, November 13, 2022January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Dance, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ You’ve got to love what’s lovable, and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Difference, Hate, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Glimpse, Heaven, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Feraz Zeid, May 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Longing, Love, Sad, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Delight, Desire, Love, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
+ Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Frost, Clouds, Storm, Waiting, 0 - Robert Frost Poet · USA
The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others. - Ludwig Bemelmans Illustrator · Austria
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. - W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
You’re in a horse race but you’re thinking like a sheep. Sheep don’t win horse races. - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA
Horses are a mirror of who you are. They’re emotionally dependent on you. - Jeannette Walls Journalist · USA