Poetry Quote by Louise Penny

“You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said.”

— Louise Penny

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

— 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, a homesickness,…

— Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to…

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

— Robert Pinsky

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in."…

— Donald Hall

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

— Howard Nemerov