“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
More from Robert Frost on Writing
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
“An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
Others on Writing
Ernest Hemingway
17 quotes“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
Somerset Maugham
12 quotes“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
Virginia Woolf
12 quotes“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
Salman Rushdie
11 quotes“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”
Kafka
10 quotes“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Flaubert
9 quotes“Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of gen...”
Ray Bradbury
9 quotes“And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and...”
Jorge Luis Borges
8 quotes“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
Harold Bloom
7 quotes“All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.”
Flannery O'Connor
7 quotes“The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.”
Ezra Pound
6 quotes“Literature is language charged with meaning”
Nora Roberts
6 quotes“You can fix anything but a blank page.”