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Poetry Quotes by Robert Frost
- I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole…
- Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
- Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
- Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment
- Writing a poem is discovering.
- Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times;…
- The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time,…
- Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
- Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
- A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
- To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
- Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
- Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
- Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.…
- Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
- I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
- Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way…
- A poem begins with a lump in the throat
- I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
More Poetry Quotes
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden