Poet of clarity and mystery, Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963) was born in San Francisco, California and raised in New England after the death of his father in 1885. His words captured the beauty of nature and the quiet complexities of life.

“All the fun’s in how you say a thing,” he said. His first poem, My Butterfly, was published in 1894, but it wasn’t until age 39 that he released his first book, A Boy’s Will.

Frost's work reflected four central beliefs: self-belief, love-belief, art-belief, and God-belief. “Earth's the right place for love,” he wrote. “I don't know where it's likely to go better.”

He won four Pulitzer Prizes and recited at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. His poetry, with its natural rhythms and direct speech, remains beloved for its depth and accessibility.

Among his most quoted lines: “Something there is that doesn't love a wall...” (*Mending Wall*), “For this is love and nothing else is love” (*A Prayer in Spring*), and this timeless call to bravery:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
— The Road Not Taken, 1916

Even in 2025, his poetry nudges us gently—to notice more, choose wisely, and take the hint.