"A poem may be worked over once..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”

“How are we to writeThe Russian novel in AmericaAs long as life goes so unterribly?”

“Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.”

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

“I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.”

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

“Experimentation is the key to 'lively up' the art.”

“The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.”

“To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.”