Robert Frost — "I would like to be a person of words. I would like to be a person of ideas. I am…"
I would like to be a person of words. I would like to be a person of ideas. I am not.
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Interview with Richard Poirier, 'The Art of Poetry No. 2' in The Paris Review (This is a subtle misquote of the one above, where he states he 'has to be' rather than 'would like to be' and 'is not')
Date: 1960
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