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
It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
What we live by we die by.
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye;
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.