I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — 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
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
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. — 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
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around… — 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
“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
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be… — 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
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by… — 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
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds… — 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
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. — 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
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
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — 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 Image
When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them. — 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 is still… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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 Image
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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 Image
And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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 Image
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