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Portrait of Robert Frost

Robert Frost

(1874–1963) Playwright United States

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Robert Frost was a playwright from the United States, best known for North of Boston.

Quick Facts About Robert Frost

Born: March 26, 1874
Died: January 29, 1963
Nationality: United States
Profession: Playwright
Notable works: North of Boston
Known for: A Masque of Reason, Mountain Interval, New Hampshire, North of Boston, West-Running Brook
Spouse: Elinor Miriam Frost

About Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet celebrated for his realistic pictures of rural life and his skill with everyday American speech. In the early 1900s he set many poems in New England country, using those settings to probe complex social and philosophical questions.

Awards & Honors

Bollingen Prize Congressional Gold Medal Robert Frost Medal United States Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Emerson-Thoreau Medal Russell Loines Award for Poetry honorary doctor of Harvard University

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honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets honorary doctor of the University of Miami

Quotes by Robert Frost · Page 15

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Color

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“He asked with the eyes more than the lips for a shelter for the night”

Shelter

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In three words I can sum up one thing i've learned about life: IT GOES ON!

Life

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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Breaking the law

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The chance is the remotest, Of its going much longer unnoticed, That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race

Chance

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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

Nature

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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Hard times

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Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his…

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I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone…

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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an…

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here…

Dark woods

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I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends…

Family

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“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences…

Fences

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“More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by…

Creativity

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I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so…

Choices

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A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.

Bird

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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

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As for his evil tidings, Belshazzar's overthrow, Why hurry to tell Belshazzar What soon enough he would know?

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Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they…

Carefulness

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“My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines,I tell him.He only says,"Good fences make good neighbors.”

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in…

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People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

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“I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds…

Reckless

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Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused…

Beauty

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.…

Journey

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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Belief

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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free…

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To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with…

Brave

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Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs…

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“But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two…

Divorce

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The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to…

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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds…

Adventure

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It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can…

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“I could give all to Time except -- except What I myself have held. But why declare The things forbidden that while…

Friendship

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I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall…

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Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to…

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Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is…

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I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...

Comedy

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Robert Frost by topic

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