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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

poetry | poets

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Stays more popular
Than populous. Stays more popular
Than populous.

Robert Frost

popularity | populousness

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Four-room shack aspiring high
With an arm of scrawny mast
For the visions in the sky
That go blindly pouring past. - MORE Four-room shack aspiring high
With an arm of scrawny mast
For the visions in the sky
That go blindly pouring past.

Robert Frost

television

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I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow. - MORE I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.

Robert Frost

defeat | nature | retreat

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He meditates the breeder's art.
He has a half a mind to start,... - MORE He meditates the breeder's art.
He has a half a mind to start,
With her for Mother Eve, a race
That shall all living things displace.

Robert Frost

breeders and breeding

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We stood a moment so, in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;... - MORE We stood a moment so, in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves.

Robert Frost

beech tree | leaves | truth

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No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder... - MORE No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under,
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.

Robert Frost

brooks | city | subterranean

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The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run.... The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run....

Robert Frost

brooks | sewers

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The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear... - MORE The farmhouse lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear
A number in. But what about the brook
That held the house as in an elbow-crook?

Robert Frost

brooks | farmhouse

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If the day comes when they know who
They are, they may know better where they are.... - MORE If the day comes when they know who
They are, they may know better where they are.
But who they are is too much to believe—
Either for them or the onlooking world.
They are too sudden to be credible.

Robert Frost

credibility | knowledge | mankind

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