Robert Lee Frost
United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The Black Cottage, 1914
And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
And nothing to look forward to with hope.
The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling
To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
To get adapted to my kind of fooling.
It Takes All Sorts, 1962
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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