Robert Frost

"Adventurous is not experimental. Experimental belongs to the laboratory. Adventure to life. Much of recent art has been merely experimental. It tries poetry with first one element then another omitted. I leaves out the head. Then it is too emotional. It leaves out the heart. Then it is too intellectual. It leaves out the feet. Then it is free verse. Adventure ends in the poorhouse. Experiment ends in the madhouse. Water spout theory of learning from above down from below up till it meets."

SOURCE: Harpers, Readings. January 2007, p. 11. From The Notebooks of Robert Frost, Harvard University Press, 2006.