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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who w

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren, “The Themes of Robert Frost,” Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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