"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." ― Robert Frost Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Frost "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance." "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." "I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down." More In Poetry "PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."― Diane Wakoski "I don’t think Auden liked my poetry very much, he’s very Anglican."― Stevie Smith "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."― T. S. Eliot