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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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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Ears

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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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