A lump in the throat
Nov. 3rd, 2009 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."
—Robert Frost, letter to Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1916
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
"A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."
—Robert Frost, letter to Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1916
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.