I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES No one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm. "How often already you've had… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The objective idea is all I ever cared about. Most of my ideas occur in verse... To be too subjective with what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." -… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Tree At My Window Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“One of my wishes is that those dark trees. So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze. Were not, as 'twere,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the… — Robert Frost Copy Share
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. — Robert Frost Copy Share
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still… — Robert Frost Copy Share
Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy... — Robert Frost Copy Share
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. — Robert Frost Copy Share
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in… — Robert Frost Copy Share
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song. — Robert Frost Copy Share
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that… — Robert Frost Copy Share
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is,… — Robert Frost Copy Share
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost Copy Share
What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth. — Robert Frost Copy Share
There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know… — Robert Frost Copy Share
