Robert Frost Biography

Robert Frost, Poet
Born asRobert Lee Frost
Occup.Poet
FromUSA
BornMarch 26, 1874
San Francisco, California, USA
DiedJanuary 29, 1963
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
CauseHeart attack
Aged88 years
Robert Frost was an American poet born in San Francisco in 1874, however matured in New England, as well as the landscape there played a considerable duty in his poetry throughout his life. He dropped out of Dartmouth University after just a couple of months because of an absence of passion in formal education and learning. Instead, he came to be a farmer, opening a farm in New Hampshire with his partner, Elinor White, whom he had actually wed in 1895. Nonetheless, when the farm fell short, he and also Elinor transferred to England in 1912, where Frost came to be buddies with various other modernist authors such as Edward Thomas as well as Ezra Extra Pound.

In England, Frost published his first book, A Child's Will, which was well-received and he returned to the USA in 1915 to continue his creating profession. He later on released North of Boston, which has a few of his most well-known poems such as "Repairing Wall surface", "The Fatality of the Worked With Male", as well as "Home Funeral". Frost's verse often dealt with rural life as well as the natural landscape, in addition to styles of seclusion and also alienation.

In 1923, Frost transferred to a farm in Vermont, where he invested a lot of the remainder of his life. He remained to compose verse throughout his profession, winning four Pulitzer Prizes for his job, including his most well-known collection, New Hampshire, published in 1923. His other famous works include West-Running Brook and The Roadway Not Taken.

Frost was called a personal individual, yet he had a close circle of friends and coworkers. One of his closest buddies was poet Edward Thomas, whom Frost had actually fulfilled in England. Thomas passed away in World war, which substantially affected Frost and also motivated several of his rhymes. Frost was additionally close with poet as well as movie critic Lionel Trilling, that later on created a book on Frost's poetry.

Frost experienced numerous personal losses throughout his life, consisting of the fatalities of his partner and also numerous of his children. He died in 1963, at the age of 88, from problems as a result of prostate surgery. Robert Frost's poetry continues to be commonly checked out and researched, and also he is thought about one of one of the most vital American poets of the 20th century.

Our collection contains 81 quotes who is written / told by Robert, under the main topics: Age - Life - Wisdom - Poetry - Design.

Related authors: George Santayana (Philosopher), Lionel Trilling (Critic), Adrienne Rich (Poet), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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81 Famous quotes by Robert Frost

Small: The best way out is always through
"The best way out is always through"
Small: The only certain freedoms in departure
"The only certain freedom's in departure"
Small: A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity"
Small: The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work"
Small: You have freedom when youre easy in your harness
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"
Small: To be a poet is a condition, not a profession
"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession"
Small: Thinking isnt agreeing or disagreeing. Thats voting
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting"
Small: They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true
"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true"
Small: There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate"
Small: There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you cant move, and
"There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies"
Small: The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism
"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism"
Small: The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them
"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them"
Small: The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep"
Small: The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violen
"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination"
Small: A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain"
Small: Education is hanging around until youve caught on
"Education is hanging around until you've caught on"
Small: Education doesnt change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard"
Small: Dont ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up"
Small: The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mothers always a Democrat
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat"
Small: I always entertain great hopes
"I always entertain great hopes"
Small: Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you
"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar"
Small: The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not ne
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"
Small: No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"
Small: Poetry is what gets lost in translation
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation"
Small: No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard
"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard"
Small: My sorrow, when shes here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be s
"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"
Small: I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was n
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power"
Small: I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way"
Small: Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down"
Small: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended"
Small: The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office"
Small: I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old
"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old"
Small: 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"
Small: The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader"
Small: Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent
"Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent"
Small: I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand I teach in order to learn
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn"
Small: Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the differe
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
Small: The best things and best people rise out of their separateness Im against a homogenized society because
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"
Small: The artist in me cries out for design
"The artist in me cries out for design"
Small: Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes
"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second"
Small: Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on"
Small: Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skatin
"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward"
Small: Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space"
Small: Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"
Small: Pressed into service means pressed out of shape
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape"
Small: Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things
"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"
Small: Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor"
Small: Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"
Small: Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"
Small: Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on
"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"
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