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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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Robert Lee Frost
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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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Nature is always hinting at us.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.
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