“Poetry is a fresh look and a fresh listen.” — Robert Frost | V2Melody

“Poetry is a fresh look and a fresh listen.”

Reducing poetic perception to renewed attention to both the visible world and the sounds of life · Letter to John Freeman, 5 November 1925

About Robert Frost

Robert Frost

26 March 1874–29 January 1963

Robert Lee Frost was born on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, at a distance both geographical and imaginative from the New England landscape with which his name would become permanently associated. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a Harvard-educated teacher turned journalist and political…

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“There are a lot of good things I believe in, but for the life of me I can't always enumerate them at a moment's notice.”

A characteristically wry admission that deeply held convictions need not form a tidy creed · Letter to Alfred Harcourt, 1917

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”

Emphasising the poem’s inner momentum and self-sustaining form · Essay, The Figure a Poem Makes

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“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

Using a sporting image to stress the value of formal constraint in poetry · Conversation / lecture remark, as commonly attributed

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