[Janice D. Soderling]

A Robert Frost quote which I have been thinking about the past few days.

The essentially poetic is "saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another, the pleasures of ulteriority."

I agree, but others may think otherwise. What, for you, is "the essentially poetic"?

[Wintaka]

What, for you, is "the essentially poetic"?

The memorable.

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[Tim Murphy]

Exactly as Colin says.

[Ed Shacklee]

What I can barely grasp, which is inescapable.

[Orwn Acra]

Funs with words.

[Michael Cantor]

The essentially poetic is the poetically essential.

And, wordplay aside, what Frost describes is what I basically try to do in most of my poetry. Head fakes. I don't know if that makes it the essentially poetic element, since I also try to do seven other things involving sound and language and pretty pictures and hints and winks and whispers and such, but it's definitely a contenduh.