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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

Robert Frost

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

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Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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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.
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