Manning the Gate Publishing LLC

10/28/2025

Why do we HIDEA our SORROWS?

10/26/2025

A great read!

Robert Frost wasn’t the kindly old poet America imagined — he was a man who clawed beauty out of heartbreak.

His poems sounded calm, but his life was anything but. Frost grew up poor, anxious, and fiercely intelligent — a boy who read by candlelight and lost faith in stability before he even found it. His father drank himself to death when Robert was eleven. His mother turned to spiritualism. By the time Frost was twenty, he had already buried his first child. The rest of his life would be a tug-of-war between creation and collapse.

He tried everything but poetry first — farmhand, schoolteacher, newspaper editor — all failures. By 38, broke and desperate, he sold the family farm and took his wife and kids to England. That decision changed everything. In a rented cottage near Beaconsfield, Frost wrote the work that would make him immortal: The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking. His poems looked pastoral, but they hid razor blades inside — loneliness, indecision, the violence of choice. He once said, “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” His began in pain and ended in survival.

Tragedy followed him like a shadow. Two more children died young. His wife, Elinor, whom he adored, grew frail and depressed. One son took his own life. Frost carried that grief into every poem. That’s why his woods felt real — not as scenery, but as sanctuary. He wrote about nature not to escape people, but to forgive them, and himself.

In 1961, at 86, he stood in the freezing sunlight at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, ready to read a new poem he’d written for the moment. The glare blinded him, the paper shook in his hands, and he couldn’t see a word. So he lifted his head and recited “The Gift Outright” entirely from memory — turning what could have been humiliation into one of the most moving performances in American history.

Robert Frost wasn’t a soft poet of snowy woods. He was a survivor who stitched philosophy to grief.
He didn’t write about nature’s peace — he wrote about how to keep walking when peace is gone, and the only sound left is your own heartbeat against the cold.

09/28/2025

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Manning the Gate Publishing desires to publish books that educate, edify, enlighten, bind up the brokenhearted, and bring freedom and redemption to the lost, broken, and hurting. We are a faith-based publishing company. Books educate. Books change lives—books open doors.

09/28/2025

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09/26/2025

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“Socrates said, ‘The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.’ He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

~Ursula K. Le Guin

09/15/2025

“When a great light is put in a dark place, it shines even brighter.”

~Ariel Burger, Witness

09/04/2025

A Must Read!

New book release by Dr. Deb Gold

08/17/2025

08/15/2025

I will be signing book stomorrow at Cocoa Beach. I'm excited to meet new faces and to also meet fellow authors and friends.

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08/14/2025

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08/06/2025

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Manning the Gate Publishing is a Christian/Messianic Publishing Co.

08/03/2025

The proof needs a bit of work, but holding my first hardback, first poetry book in my hands was a joyful feeling. To be continued.