Quote by Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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Poetry is the energy of the soul made ink. – Terri Guillemets, “Lust & creativity,” 1995

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Mathematics and Poetry are… the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. – Thomas Hill

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. – Anne Stevenson

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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