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
A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows
We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Two roads converged in a woods. He (Mitchell) took the one less traveled and that made all the difference.
Families break up when people take hints you don't intend and miss hints you do intend
There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I go to school - to youth - to learn the future
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down