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Robert Frost quotes

1874–1963 · American poet

Frost's plain-spoken poems hide a lot of irony — especially the two most quoted ones.

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2 quotes traced to Robert Frost's own work or a reliable witness.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by.

In the poem both roads are "really about the same"; the speaker only claims the difference later. Frost meant it partly as a joke.

Source: "The Road Not Taken" (1916)
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Good fences make good neighbors.

It is the neighbour's saying, and the poem's narrator doubts it.

Source: "Mending Wall" (1914)