Quote of the Day by Robert Frost: A reflection on mothers, love & life’s unexpected turns

Robert Frost is one of the most famous poets of English literature. His poems beautifully celebrate the beauty, struggles, and quiet wisdom of everyday life. Frost became one of America’s most celebrated literary voices, with poems like The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Mending Wall. His work is often deceptively simple, using familiar images of forests, farms, snow and stone walls. But beneath the everyday images are deep insights into human relationships, choices, loneliness, nature and the intricacies of life. Frost’s words still ring true across generations, even decades after his death.Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a journalist and teacher and his mother, the Scottish immigrant Isabelle Moodie, encouraged her son’s literary interests. In 1885 Frost's childhood changed drastically with the death of his father from tuberculosis.