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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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America
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.
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