QuoteQuest“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
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AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Robert Frost
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (January 1, 1916)
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Frost, Robert. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Robert Frost. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
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