A Quote by Robert Frost

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
American - Poet
March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.

Robert Frost

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Robert Frost

We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

Pam Bondi

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Leo Tolstoy

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Terri E Apter

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Jane Hirshfield

The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.