Writing Quotes by Robert Frost

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

— Robert Frost

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

— Robert Frost

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

— Robert Frost

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

— Robert Frost

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

— Robert Frost

“The ear is the only writer and the only true reader.”

— Robert Frost

“No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”

— Robert Frost

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

— Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

— Robert Frost

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

— Robert Frost

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

— Robert Frost

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

— Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

— Robert Frost

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.

— Robert Frost

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

— Robert Frost

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be…

— Robert Frost

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

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around…

— Robert Frost

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that…

— Robert Frost

“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

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if…

— Robert Frost

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free…

— Robert Frost

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

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we…

— Robert Frost

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for…

— Robert Frost

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds…

— Robert Frost

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

— Robert Frost

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

— Robert Frost

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

— Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

— Robert Frost

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure…

— Robert Frost

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

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by…

— Robert Frost

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