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

Robert Frost
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ✨ 1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. ✨ Quoted in Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost: A Backward Look (1964)
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. ✨ Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). The Collected Prose of Robert Frost, p.1 … ▶
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. ✨ Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay … ▶

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ✨ 1955 In the NewYork Times, 7 Nov.

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