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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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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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