“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Variant: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.”
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