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...“I believe in what the Greeks call synecdoche: the philosophy of the part for the whole; skirting the hem of the goddess. All that an artist needs is samples. Enough success to know what money is like; enough love to know what women are like.” Enough time, he might have added, for creative puttering; enough thin books of verse to fill half a foot of shelf. Frost is always bedevilling his students with questions, but never with one — this is his cardinal principle as an educator — which he can answer himself.

ex portrait of Robert Frost, in
Fire Under the Andes : A Group of North American Portraits by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant; photographic portraits by E. O. Hoppé, Bachrach, and Loomis; (1927) : 285-303 (288)
U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881-1965), journalist, writer
wikipedia : link
 

12 April 2026