Robert Lee Frost
United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
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Unless I'm wrong
I but obey
The urge of a song:
I'm 'bound' away!
And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died.
I but obey
The urge of a song:
I'm 'bound' away!
And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died.
Away!, 1962
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.
Tree at My Window, 1928
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Dust of Snow, 1923
If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes
Will keep my talk from getting overwise,
I'm not the one for putting off the proof.
Let it be overwhelming.
Will keep my talk from getting overwise,
I'm not the one for putting off the proof.
Let it be overwhelming.
Dust in the Eyes, 1928
A poem ... begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ... It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Letter to Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1916
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
The Lesson for Today, 1942
She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease.
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,
So that in guys it gently sways at ease.
The Silken Tent, 1942
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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
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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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