Wednesday, January 17, 2007

bad for the clothes

Robert Frost on his theory of writing:

“A sentence is a sound in itself on which other sounds called words are strung. You may string words together without a sentence-sound to string them on just as you may tie clothes together by the sleeves and stretch them without a clothes line between two trees, but – it is bad for the clothes"


From Christopher Benfey's review of the new Notebooks of Robert Frost in the New Republic.

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