“THE FIGURE A POEM MAKESNo one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- Not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”
Robert Frost
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ”
Robert Frost
“Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.”
Robert Frost
“with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.”
Jane Hirshfield