Robert Frost: 5 Quotes for Writers
Life lessons and thoughts on the craft of writing
№01
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost
It’s kind of a strange feeling, isn’t it? The first time a poem shows up, it feels a little bit familiar, a little bit strange.
Robert Frost captured the essence of this feeling brilliantly with this quote. It’s a mixture of many feelings and it’s in those feelings that the poem unfolds before us. Sometimes all at once and sometimes at its own slow, and careful pace.
The thing isn’t to try and control it. But to be ready when we recognize it happening. We are partners with the work we are creating, and stewards of that work as we bring it to our readers. Keep that in mind and you’ll go far.
№02
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost
This should be a universal truth, but it’s so danged hard to hear and accept that its own truth might get in its way. The really important question to ask yourself here is, which one are you?
