Robert Lee Frost

United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out.

Mending Wall, 1914
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
In three words I can sum up everything I've ever learned about life: It goes on.

The old dog barks backward without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.

The Span of Life, 1936

Something we were withholding made us weak
Until we found that it was ourselves.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

The Secret Sits, 1942

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

From In the Clearing, 1962
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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