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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

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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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Love
Life
Throat
Poetry
Taking
Writing

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I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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