Robert Frost - What is a 'poet'?

“Keats (a poet before Frost's time) mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet this knowledge could not spoil the rainbow for me.

[ ]There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet...”

― Robert Frost, Interviews With Robert Frost (p. 64)

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