News at Eleven: I think he was seen as eccentric

and interesting and he was also a really good listener. People who know his work would not be surprised to hear me say that, because his work is full of talk, and in some cases the poems are almost like plays in that there are dialogues between people talking and he has one poem, called "A Time To Talk", where he describes a sort of a personal ethos, which is: if you're hoeing potatoes and someone comes by on the road, you don't just wave to them, you go over, it's the time to talk. [--Jim Schley of Robert Frost]

from Vermont Public Radio: Robert Frost--New England, a Sense of Place

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