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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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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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Verse
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Verses
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Offense
Writing
Tennis
Soon
Poetry
Saying
Free

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