"You might be interested to know that during my ten years in Derry the five of them farming altogether and the last five mostly teaching but still farming a little, I wrote more than half of my first book much more than half of second and even quite a little of my third, though they were not published till later.
I might say the core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm down the road from Derry Village toward Lawrence. The only thing we had plenty of was time and seclusion. I couldn't have figured in advance, I hadn't that kind of foresight. But it turned out right as a doctor's prescription."
A letter to Robert Chase from Robert Frost, March 4, 1952