All ROBERT FROST Quotes about “Poetry”

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
“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.”
“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”
“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.”
“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”
“Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.”
“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.”

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