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
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
We love the things we love for what they are.
I'm not a teacher, but an awakener.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Good fences make good neighbors.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.