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Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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