Robert Frost Poetry Quotations

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

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.

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

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

When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.

Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.