Robert Frost

Poet

Robert Frost was an American poet known for his vivid depictions of rural life and profound insights into human nature, particularly in works like 'The Road Not Taken.'

Born
March 26, 1874
Died
January 29, 1963
Quotes
480
Rank
#66

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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

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"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."

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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

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"Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart."

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"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep..."

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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."

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"The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil."

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"The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt."

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"What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography."

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"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

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"You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles."

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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."

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