Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert FrostRead
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Poets often struggle to sell their work in a market saturated with poetry, making them appear more businesslike than traditional businessmen.
In this quote, Robert Frost comments on the oversaturation of the poetry market and the challenges poets face in promoting their art. He suggests that because poetry is so abundant, it sometimes forces poets to adopt a more commercial or business-oriented approach, as their creative works can be difficult to sell compared to products in other industries.
Themes
PoetryArtMarketBusinessCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a discussion about the commercialization of art in modern society.
More from Robert Frost
All quotes →You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Robert FrostRead
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
Robert FrostRead
'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' _x000D_ _x000D_ I don't suppose the water's changed at all. _x000D_ _x000D_ You and I know enough to know it's warm _x000D_ _x000D_ Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. _x000D_ _x000D_ But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
Robert FrostRead
For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.
Robert FrostRead
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
Robert FrostRead
Similar quotes
It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.
Joy HarjoRead
For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.
Brad BirdRead
Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.
Hans WegnerRead
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
Charles De LintRead
One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.
Minor WhiteRead
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van MorrisonRead