Robert Frost Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

• Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Emotion, Found

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

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Motivational

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Inspiration, Poetry, Delight

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Poetry, Political

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Robert Frost

  Powerful, Writing, Poetry

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

• Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Thinking, Fire

  "Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)

• A poem begins with a lump in the throat

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

• Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, Ice, Poetry

  "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Poetry, Tennis

  Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, Forever

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.133, Harvard University Press

• 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 right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.

  Robert Frost

  Reading, Taken, Writing

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

• I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Way, Lost

  Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

• 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 end I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  "The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

• I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Play, Poetry

  In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

• Before now poetry has taken notice
  Of wars, and what are wars but politics
  Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

  Robert Frost

  War, Taken, Poetry

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

• Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
  Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
  Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

  Robert Frost

  Freedom, Poetry, Leader

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• Summary riposte
  To the dreary wail
  There's no knowing what
  Love is all about.
  Poets know a lot.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Knowing, Poetry

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  Robert Frost

  School, Past, College

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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