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Writing 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…
- Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
- All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
- All the fun is in how you say a thing.
- It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The…
- I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in…
- For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose…
- Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
- Writing a poem is discovering.
- Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
- Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.
- A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
- I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
- No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
- Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
- Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
- You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in…
- 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.
- A poem begins with a lump in the throat
- Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched…
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