A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Weitere Zitate von Robert Frost
Zum Autor"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies."
"A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."