Art Quote by Robert Frost

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…

— Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or…

— Alice McDermott

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

— John Fuller

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

— Marvin Bell

As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader…

— Alice McDermott

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in…

— John Ruskin

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

— Seth Godin

I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery…

— Rita Dove