Robert Lee Frost
United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta
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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below.
Goodbye and Keep Cold, 1923
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.
New Hampshire, 1923
They would not find me changed from him they knew
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Into My Own, 1913
The Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow.
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleighbells in a ghost of snow.
Hyla Brook, 1916
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air.
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air.
To Earthward, 1923
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's the wife who can't and will.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Essays
Essays