Effort Quote by Robert Frost

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

— 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 with a lump in the throat

— Robert Frost

A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H.…

— Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

— Khalil Gibran

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

— Rene Char

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

— Erica Jong

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is…

— William Wordsworth