“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost · Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 1916
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42 quotes on poetry and the craft of writing — from the classics to the everyday.
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
Robert Frost · The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Robert Frost · The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
Robert Frost · Mending Wall, 1914
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T. S. Eliot · Little Gidding, Four Quartets, 1942
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
T. S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
“The only way out is through.”
Robert Frost · A Servant to Servants, 1914
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1952
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
Paulo Coelho
“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is stirring in the greenness underneath.”
William Carlos Williams · Spring and All
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Wallace Stevens · Harmonium
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon. To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
Henry James · Edith Wharton's memoir, A Backward Glance
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
Rumi · "The Essential Rumi", translated by Coleman Barks
“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
Emily Dickinson · Poem Fr949, c. 1864
