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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Discovering
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Poem
Never
Curiosity
Whose
Poetry
Started

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