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“If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.”

Ifs Poetry Voice Taken Essentials Empty Bravery Surprise Willingness

Author:Jorie Graham

“Poetry surprises us with what we already know.”

Knows Poetry Literature Surprise

Book:Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.”

Poetry Essence Surprise Delight Invention Unexpected Poetry Is Something Unexpected

Book:The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

Source: The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

Knows Writing Art Ends Remember Poetry Surprise Delight Discovering Initials

Author:Robert Frost

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.”

Poetry Loses Forever Pieces Hundred Hot Surprise Ice Metals Fragrance Melting Freshness Stoves

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost