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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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End is a gloomy word.
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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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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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