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
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
The only way out is to go through
I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.