(documentary) "A Lover's Quarrel with the World(1963)

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(documentary) "A Lover's Quarrel with the World(1963)

WGBH Educational Foundation

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Peace is something that you only get by war or the threat of war.

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We retreat. We don't escape, ....

Retreat is sort of the characteristice word to me. Don't escape. You withdraw with God. With Sleep.

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You know, I've often said that every poem solve something for me and in life.

I go so far as to say that every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

But of course any psychiatrist will tell you that so is making a basket or making a horseshoe or even anything form give you as a onfidence in the universe........

The best way to settle a mystic is to make something that has form because all you want to do is to get a sense of form.

Well, that makes your health well, feeling that there is some sort of form to your business, your occupation.

Everybody that starts anything starts as a village idiot of course and maybe that's what all the poets ought to be. 

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Some people seem to think that if they pile up enough knowledge it's like piling up oily rags in the basement. They burst into flame of themselves, light the world up. They say to you in school, "Hey, here we're going to dump a lot of marterals on you. Now, back up this load." And then they say now, "It's coming to assimiliate!." And you die under it.

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The Old Testament says, more than once I think, may my gife, my sacrifice be acceptable in thy sight.

Fear,  you got to have the fears of some ultimate judgement beyond the crowd, beyond me.

When you die in battle, that's what you have to say. You know, may my life be acceptable in thy sight.

May my sacrifice be acceptable in thy sight. That's what you mean by the fear of God.

However you work at it, no matter what you do your work, your poetry, your life that you bet on, succeed or fail, may it be an acceptable sacrifice on that altar.

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Prof Sattar Basra

Frost's vision of the world was leavened by what he had observed and experienced as an individual. He could crack a joke and deprecate heaps of knowledge piled like old rags in a disused barn primarily because he knew that education based on books about books led to erudition that spawns erudition with no expiry. His poems are light like moths and butterflies. His diction lightsome. That makes him one of the easiest poets to learn by heart.