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INTERVIEW
Robert Frost
INTERVIEWER
The difficulty of your poetry is perhaps in your emphasis on variety in tones of voice. You once said that consciously or unconsciously it was tones of voice that you counted on to double the meaning of every one of your statements.
FROST
Yes, you could do that. Could unsay everything I said, nearly. Talking contraries—it’s in one of the poems. Talk by contraries with people you’re very close to. They know what you’re talking about. This whole thing of suggestiveness and double entendre and hinting—comes down to the word “hinting.” With people you can trust you can talk in hints and suggestiveness. Families break up when people take hints you don’t intend and miss hints you do intend. You can watch that going on, as a psychologist. I don’t know. No, don’t … no don’t you … don’t think of me … See, I haven’t led a literary life. These fellows, they really work away with their prose trying to describe themselves and understand themselves, and so on. I don’t do that. I don’t want to know too much about myself.”
Read the whole “ART OF POETRY” interview with Bobby Frost, he’s a crack up! 🔥🙏
Erudite, wise, literate, light, observes, man in his time, sees through the whining bullshit of then and that is still prevalent, or missing in action, now.
