Robert Frost

Robert Frost

26-Mar-1874


United States


Poet

Robert Frost was an American poet and the winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. Popular works include "Fire and Ice," "Wall Repair," "Buckets," "Exit," "No Gold Can Remain" and "Home Burial." His 1916 poem, "The Road Not That That," is often read at graduation ceremonies in the United States. As a special guest at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, Frost became a poet and an illegal “poet of the United States.” Frost spent his first 40 years anonymously. He exploded at the scene after returning from England at the start of World War I. He died of prostate surgery problems on January 29, 1963.

QUOTES BY Robert Frost


"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."

"Writing a poem is discovering"

"Piling up knowledge is as bad as piling up money. You have to begin sometime to kick around what you know."

"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

"If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on."

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

"Earth's the right place for love; / I don't know where it's likely to go better."

"This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the things we love for what they are."

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