You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.


Robert Frost: A Backward Look, by Louis Untermeyer (1964), p. 18.

Robert Frost Quotes

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That...

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That...

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That...

You've often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That...