A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sick…

Robert Frost
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. 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. ✨ Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, p.84, Harvard University Press
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