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Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

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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