Robert Frost Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

• 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”

• 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

• You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Believe, Writing

• 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

• I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Knows

• 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"

• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Ears, Icy

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

• All the fun is in how you say a thing.

  Robert Frost

  Fun, Writing

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.37, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Writing a poem is discovering.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Discovering

  1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

• 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.

• Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Writing, Distinction

  Robert Frost (1968). “Selected prose of Robert Frost”

• Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Men, Style

• I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

  Robert Frost

  Teaching, Writing, Cities

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

• I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.265, Harvard University Press

• 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.

• Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Fall, Writing

• Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Writing, People

  Robert Frost, David Bradley, Dewitt Jones (1979). “Robert Frost, a tribute to the source”, Henry Holt & Co

• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

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

• Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Beginners, Trials

• 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

• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.108, Harvard University Press

• Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Silence, Pressure

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