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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.
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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The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.
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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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