“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…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.”
The quote "A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. …" is famous quote attributed to Robert Frost (1874–1963), American poet.
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (1 January 1916)
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