(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco)

poet Robert Frost
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Quotations

  • ''The kind of Unitarian
    Who having by elimination got
    From many gods to Three, and Three to One,
    Thinks why not taper off to none at all.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Mercy."
    1878 person liked.
    		947 person did not like.
  • ''The birch begins to crack its outer sheath
    Of baby green and show the white beneath....''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Young Birch."
    1564 person liked.
    		829 person did not like.
  • ''They must have seen ahead what now appears:
    They would bring empires down about our ears
    And by the example of our Declaration
    Make everybody want to be a nation.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration."
    1237 person liked.
    		705 person did not like.
  • ''Don't discount our powers;
    We have made a pass
    At the infinite,''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Kitty Hawk."
    1202 person liked.
    		672 person did not like.
  • ''But with one step backward taken
    I saved myself from going.
    A world torn loose went by me.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "One Step Backward Taken."
    187 person liked.
    		71 person did not like.
  • ''By measure. It was word and note,
    The wind the wind had meant to be
    A little through the lips and throat.
    The aim was song the wind could see.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Aim Was Song."
    153 person liked.
    		62 person did not like.
  • ''Nobody was ever meant
    To remember or invent
    What he did with every cent.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Hardship of Accounting (l. 3-5). . . The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.
    186 person liked.
    		67 person did not like.
  • ''"... You can hear the small buzz saws whine, the big saw
    Caterwaul to the hills around the village
    As they both bite the wood. It's all our music.
    One ought as a good villager to like it.
    No doubt it has a sort of prosperous sound,
    And it's our life."
    "Yes, when it's not our death."''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Self-Seeker."
    150 person liked.
    		67 person did not like.
  • ''... in this air of withering sweetness ...''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Waiting."
    182 person liked.
    		71 person did not like.
  • ''... everyone developing
    A language of his own to write his book in,
    And one to cap the climax by combining
    All language in a one-man tongue-confusion.''
    Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Mercy."
    151 person liked.
    		65 person did not like.

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Out, Out

The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,
Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.
And from there those that lifted eyes could count
Five mountain ranges one behind the other
Under the sunset far into Vermont.
And the saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
As it ran light, or had to bear a load.
And nothing happened: day was all but done.

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