Robert Frost

1874–1963 · American poet, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the twentieth century, four times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for collections including New Hampshire and A Further Range. His plainspoken verse on rural New England life carried a darker undercurrent of endurance and loss, themes shaped by a personal history marked by repeated family tragedy.

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“The best way out is always through”

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by”

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“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on”

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