(Belated) Happy Birthday to Robert Frost, Poet and Atheist.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, CA, on March 26, 1874 and died in Vermont on January 29, 1963. In between he wrote some of the most amazing poetry. In honor of his birthday I’d like to share some of my favorite Frost poems and quotes.
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“I turned to speak to God, About the world’s despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn’t there.”
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
FIRE AND ICE
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 know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
