Robert Frost

He has been described as both innocent and bawdy, God-fearing and sacrilegious, kindly and mean spirited, tenderhearted and tough minded. He was a complex individual defying simple characterization. He liked to share his poetry on college campuses and apparently enjoyed fielding questions that followed. He urged all to read his poetry as a means of understanding how metaphor lies at the heart of all our thinking, whether in science or in poetry.