A Quote by Mason Cooley

Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

Mason Cooley

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Frost Mean Plain Robert Simple Strong

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

Sholom Aleichem

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

Ally Condie

My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

Ann Aguirre

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

John Green

I've always - from my very first film, 'Shopping,' which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I've always liked strong women characters in films.

Paul W. S. Anderson

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

Bob Newhart

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

Jamie Wyeth

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

Bernard Hopkins

Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost power, I could wave my hand, and suddenly that whole thing would be covered in ice.” “Not frost?” “Same difference.” “How would frost and/or ice power help you fight crime?” “Well, I don’t know that it would. But it’d be cool.

Richelle Mead

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Paul Muldoon

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Paul Simon

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

Joseph Brodsky

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

Howard Nemerov

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.