The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
Robert FrostThe difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert FrostLovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.
Robert FrostI could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Robert FrostSentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
Robert Frost