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
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
Nothing gold can stay.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
What we live by we die by.
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
A poem begins with a lump in the throat
We ran as if to meet the moon.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.