Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Robert Frost, (Mar 26 1874-1963), US poet; He was America's unofficial poet laureate who wrote of rural New England, e.g., The Road Not Taken.