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About Robert Frost
American poet
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is known for his realistic portrayals of rural life and his mastery of American colloquial speech, especially in poems set in New England in the early 20th century. In those settings, Frost explored questions that were larger than the landscape itself, using ordinary rural scenes to look at social and philosophical concerns. His work stays closely tied to place and speech, but it often reaches beyond them to reflect on human experience.
More from Robert Frost (154 quotes) →More quotes by Robert Frost
- “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”Robert Frost
- “A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”Robert Frost
- “Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”Robert Frost
- “Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.”Robert Frost
Memory: more sayings
- “I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.”Lauren Oliver
- “I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious…”Lucy Grealy
- “My earliest political memory is of attending, in 1975, a tub-thumping campaign rally with my father in Adelai…”Julia Gillard
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Books by Robert Frost
North of Boston
2004
Robert Frost
1973
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
2015