“A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”

— Robert Frost, Letter to Louis Untermeyer (1 January 1916)

About Robert Frost

1874 – 1963

American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose plain-spoken poems of rural New England, such as 'The Road Not Taken', explore choice, loss, and endurance.

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