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Robert Frost Quotes about Writing

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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.

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.

Art, Believe, Writing

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

Book, Reading, Writing

Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

Fun, Writing

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

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.

Reading, Taken, Writing

Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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

Writing, Ears, Icy

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

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

Writing, Knows

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Love, Life, Writing

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

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Art, Philosophy, Writing

Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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

Writing, Poetry, Tennis

Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935

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

Powerful, Writing, Poetry

1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Love, Life, Writing

Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

Writing a poem is discovering.

Writing, Discovering

1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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.

Writing, Talking, House

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

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

Writing, Men, Style

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.

Baseball, Writing, Distinction

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

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

Education, Reading, Writing

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

Art, Writing, Poetry

"The Figure a Poem Makes" by Robert Frost, 1939.

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

Writing, Silence, Pressure

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.

Book, Reading, Writing

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

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

Inspirational, Fall, Writing

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.84, Harvard University Press

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

Writing, Play, Poetry

In Edward Lathem 'Interviews with Robert Frost' (1966) p. 203

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

Inspirational, Writing, People

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

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

Writing, Heaven, Ifs

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

Writing, Beginners, Trials

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