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Robert Frost, born on March 26, 1874, and died on January 29, 1963, was one of the most renowned poets of the 20th century in the United States. He is known for his profound philosophy and unique poetic style, which often explores themes such as nature, life, and morality.

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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

Writing Ends Poetry Powerful Curiosity Discovering Inspiring Writing

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“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.”

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“No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.”

Ends Hard Memories Disregard Stardom No Memory

Book:Robert Frost, a tribute to the source

Source: Robert Frost, a tribute to the source

“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.”

Ends Figures Delight Confusion Cult Sects Momentary Clarification

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“Ends and beginningsthere are no such things. There are only middles.”

Ends Beginnings And Ends Beginning Middle And End Goodbye My Love Great Beginnings

Book:The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems

“End is a gloomy word.”

Book:Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)

“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.”

Thinking Ends Asks Tree Journey Fronts Obstacles Woods Bars Passages Crash Tempest

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”

Ends Feelings Tolerance Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Feeling

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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

Ends Desire Love Is Delight Poetry Is

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“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Ends Enough Desire Poetry Hate Fire Destruction Favors Ice Great Poetry Fire And Ice Greatest Poetry

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“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?”

Men Love Heart Ends Reason Accepting Grace Acceptance Seasons Yield Bows Treason

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden”

Giving Children Made Said Ends Home Care Tree Mankind Flower Garden Lovely My Children Pathways Vines Figs Prunes

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.”

Ends Lasts Flower Blue Faded Asters

Book:The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.”

Mean Ends Goodbye Farewell Beginning Middle And End Goodbye My Love

Book:The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems

Source: The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems

“Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.”

Love Ends Moments Dream Realizing Walks Sun Awareness Arise Opening This Life Within You

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“It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.”

Love Should Ends Wisdom Pleasure Figures Delight

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“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

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“When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.”

Looks Stills Ends Character Walks Five Feet Havens Wall Stones Horse Hills Friendly Tall Blades Thrust Mellow Hoe Stone Walls

Book:Frost: Poems

Source: Frost: Poems

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1874
Died: January 29, 1963
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 532

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