
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
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- 1963
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[Birds Chirping]
[ Frost ]
A career like mine, you know...
could end, as someone might
say mockingly...
What began in felicity
and the privacy and secrecy...
and furtiveness of your poetry...
is ending in a burst of publicity.
We won't talk about that too much.
[ Man Narrating]
Robert Lee Frost...
named for Robert E. Lee.
1874 to 1963.
San Francisco to Boston.
Recognition as a poet
didn't come until 1913 in London.
In 1938, he feared he was finished.
He said that courage
is the virtue that counts most.
[ Man ] What about the courage
it takes to live to be 88?
That's- The less said
about that the better.
[All Laughing]
You don't Want to scare me.
[All Laughing]
- Ah, there.
-[ Man] ls it courage or luck?
No, something-
It's being sick when you're young.
- [ All Laughing]
- That's it.
See, I had bad health
when I was young.
- So I- this is just sheer evening it up.
- [All Chuckling ]
Living on. Have a better-
Ive heard that said before.
Somebody else was like that,
delicate when he was young...
rugged when he was old.
God evened it up to him.
[ Narrator]
Out of 40 years of obscurity...
he found his own voice.
A voice said, Look me in the stars...
and tell me truly men of earth...
if all the soul-and-body scars...
were not too much to pay for birth.
[ Narrator]
He pursued an art...
most men scorned
as impractical if not feminine.
I tell ya, every time I catch a man
red-handed, reading my book...
- a man, see.
- Yeah, yeah.
He'll- He looks up
and says brightly...
My wife's a great fan of yours.
- [ Both Chuckling]
- Every time!
[ Narrator]
He lived to win.
It will be some time
before anyone sums him up.
But in 1941 he wrote
his own epitaph:
[No Audible Dialogue]
I had a lover's quarrel with the World.
That's me.
I thought of modifying that...
to say I had my lovers quarrels,
plural, with the World.
But I make that one sustained
quarrel all my life. [Chuckles]
[ Man Chuckles]
Lover's quarrel- ifs a long
sustained quarrel.
The artist, however faithful
to his personal vision of reality...
becomes the lost champion...
of the individual mind and sensibility...
against an intrusive society
and an officious state.
The great artist
is thus a solitary figure.
He has, as Frost said,
a lovers quarrel with the world.
In pursuing his
perceptions of reality...
he must often sail against
the currents of his time.
This is not a popular role.
If Robert Frost was much honored
during his lifetime...
it was because a good many
preferred to ignore his darker truths.
I think we're proud of Mr. Frost...
and his interpretations of What
we feel is the best of America.
And therefore...
I present this award...
to our very good friend...
who-
- Picture of him too.
- And ifs a picture of you and ifs a-
Thank you.
Would you say a word here?
Of course this is- this is sort of
the height of my life, you know...
and on a wave of poetry, isn't it'?
And- And I've-
That ought to be enough to say.
[ Kennedy ]
I knew Mr. Frost quite late in his life.
Really the last four or five years.
And I was impressed
by a good many qualities...
but also by his toughness.
He was not particularly belligerent
in his relations, his human relations.
But he felt very strongly
that the Unites States...
should be country of power,
of force...
to use that power and force Wisely.
But he once said to me
not to let the Harvard in me...
- get to be too important.
So we've- we've followed that advice.
You never know What I'll do next.
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