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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”

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Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

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Author:Louise Bogan

“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.”

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Author:Vanna Bonta

“There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.”

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Author:Alphonse de Lamartine