It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The …

Robert Frost
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It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love. ✨ 'Collected Poems' (1939) 'The Figure a Poem Makes'
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