Robert Frost Quotes About Translations

Quotes about: Translations

• You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Littles, Lost

  "Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

  Robert Frost

  Lost, Interpretation, Poetry Is

  Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)

• 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”

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