“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular…. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”

—  Robert Frost

Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
1960s

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American poet 1874–1963

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