Robert Lee Frost

United States
26 Mar 1874 // 29 Jan 1963
Poeta

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Birches, 1916
There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The Self-Seeker, 1914
There are tones of voice that mean more than words.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
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