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Landwirt, Lehrer, Lyriker, erhielt 4 x den Pulitzer-Preis (USA, 1874 - 1963).

Robert Lee Frost · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Robert Lee Frost wäre heute 150 Jahre, 5 Monate, 13 Tage oder 54.953 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.03.1874 in San Francisco
Gestorben am 29.01.1963 in Boston
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder

• Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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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 favour 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.

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• Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it.

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• The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office.

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• The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

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• The water comes ashore, And the people look at the sea. They cannot look out far. They cannot look in deep. But when was that ever a bar To any watch they keep?

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• The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars-on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

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• We cannot tell some people what it is we believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

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• We dance around in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.

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• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took away from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country - the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

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• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

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• You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe a thing in.

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• Le sol était à nous avant qu'il ne nous possède. Il était notre sol plus de cent ans avant que nous fussions son peuple.

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• Seigneur, si Tu me pardonnes les petits tours que je te joue, je Te pardonnerai, moi, le grand tour que Tu m'as joué.

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