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
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. — 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
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
“Lovers, Forget Your love, And List To The Love Of These, She A Window Flower, And He A Winter Breeze.” -Robert Frost”… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it… — 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
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.” — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by… — 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
