Et dikt begynner som en klump i halsen, en følelse av at noe er galt, en hjemlengsel, en kjærlighetssorg.
Brev til Louis Untermeyer (1. januar 1916).
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.