“Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance.”

—  Robert Frost

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Context: 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.

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American poet 1874–1963

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