(1874–1963)
U.S. poet“Stet is my slogan.”
more infosource: Letter to Louis Untermeyer, September 6, 1938, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 311.
category: edit, poetry, stet, writing
medium: letter
“I seem slowly to be getting over what I imagined was the matter with me.”
more infosource: February 23, 1932 letter to Louis Untermeyer from Amherst, Massachusetts, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 220.
category: imagination, recovery, sick
medium: Letter
“I am growing more and more honorable every time the moon comes safely through an eclipse. (Subject for a poem.)”
more infosource: October 12, 1938 letter to Louis Untermeyer from Boston, Massachusetts, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 313.
category: eclipse, honorable, moon, poetry
medium: Letter
“In cutting marble and in drawing with silver point you can’t undo what you have done. So may my writing be. Stet is my slogan. And if it can’t stand let it set.”
more infosource: September 6, 1938 letter to Louis Untermeyer, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 310–11.
category: poetry, slogan, stet, writing
medium: Letter
“We are in many many troubles for the moment, so many that grief loses its dignity and bursts out laughing.”
more infosource: July 9, 1931 letter to Louis Untermeyer from North Bennington, Vermont, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 209.
category: grief, laughter, trouble
medium: Letter
“We are enjoying a descent of bears upon this region. If we survive it there should be much to tell. They are as thick as caterpillars in a pest year…A mother and two cubs went up the road by our house the other evening tearing down the small cherry trees along the wall. You could see where one of the cubs had wiped his bottom on a large stone and left traces of a diet of choke cherries and blueberries. I almost got one cornered in our pasture last night, but he lifted the wire and went under the fence. It is terrible.”
more infosource: August 31, 1925 letter to Louis Untermeyer from Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 176.
medium: Letter
“Be as good as it is in your nature to be.”
more infosource: June 3, 1920 letter to Louis Untermeyer, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 108.
medium: Letter
“I’ve been sick, joking aside. The trouble seems to be that I wasn’t taken up carefully enough in Franconia nor replanted soon enough in South Shaftsbury. It has been a bad job of transplanting. I lost a lot of roots (the tap root entirely) and the roots I have left are pretty well impaired by too long exposure to the air out of the ground. You’re a poet yourself and finely constituted; so you don’t have to be told how it is with poets. The time of year too has been against me, let them say what they will in rural journalism. Even in the case of evergrins [sic] I find that the fall is not a favorable time for transplanting. And I’m not an evergrin. It has gone hard with me.”
more infosource: October 11, 1920 letter to Louis Untermeyer, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 118.
category: move, poet, root, transplant
medium: Letter
Robert Frost