"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches" was written by which poet?

The line, "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches" was written by the poet Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) in the poem titled 'Birches'. In the poem, the act of swinging on birches is presented as a way to escape the hard rationality or “Truth” of the adult world, if only for a moment. As the boy climbs up the tree, he is climbing toward “heaven” and a place where his imagination can be free.

In 'Birches' the speaker longs for the days of his youth and the flights of imagination that it provided. But, the poem becomes more melancholy as the speaker's introspection emerges with the word "Truth" in line 21.

The speaker returns to his flights of fancy of youth and its innocence and creativity as, perhaps, the means to finding some real "Truth" in his own personal reality.