Auden 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 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

“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 poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

— Robert Frost

“The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing. Perhaps what is truly…

— Debbie Millman

“To me at least, poetry like love- implies a magical approach to life, quite different from the presently accepted rational way of looking at…

— Jane Roberts

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Robert Frost

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi