Robert Frost

He was America's favorite twentieth-century poet immortalizing the climate, character, and spirit of New England with his images of woods on a snowy evening and roads that diverge in a yellow wood. He won the pulitzer Prize four times and served as a goodwill ambassador for the United States. He wrote a poem to read at the inauguaration of President John Kennedy, but when the sun was too bright for his failing eyes, he recited "The Gift Outright" from memory.