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Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

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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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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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