Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melti…

Robert Frost
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. ✨ Collected Poems (1939) Figure a Poem Makes
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Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart. ✨ Robert Frost (1975). The poetry of Robert Frost
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ✨ BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis, September 13, 1957.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ✨ Address to Milton Academy, Milton, Mass., 17 May 1935
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. ✨ Vogue, March … ▶

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