Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Robert Lee Frostwas an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 March 1874
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
To be social is to be forgiving.
You can't get too much winter in the winter.