6 Robert Frost Quotes on Literature

Robert Frost quotes on literature

35. Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

86. 'Twas Age imposed on poems Their gather-roses burden To warn against the danger That overtaken lovers From being overflooded With happiness should have it And yet not know they have it.

107. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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129. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

130. All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.

147. Poetry is the first thing lost in translation.