Robert Frost on Writing

“I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.”

More from Robert Frost

“Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.”

“All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

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