Frost, Robert Lee

US poet

wrote poetry collections "New Hampshire" 1923 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1924

also "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes"), "Collected Poems" 1930 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1931), "A Further Range" 1936 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1937), "A Witness Tree" 1942 (Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1943), poem "The Gift Outright" (read at John F. Kennedy's inauguration 1961)

Bollingen Prize 1962

• "The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
• "The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."
• "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."
• "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
• "A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."