A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost Quotes
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A Poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
No wonder poets sometime have to seem so much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
The best way out is always through.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy […]
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton’s head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
