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
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
No wonder poets sometimes have to seem/ So much more business-like than business men./ Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Skepticism,'' is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, ''Well, what have we here?'
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
I play better tennis because the court is there.
Let me be the one To do what is done.
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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.