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.
Weitere Zitate von Robert Frost
Zum Autor"Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent."
"Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting."
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
"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?"
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."