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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
Throat
Poetry
Taking
Writing
Way
Love
Life

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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