No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the wri…

Robert Frost
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ✨ Collected Poems (1939) Figure a Poem Makes
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Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? ✨ Robert Frost, Mark Ri … ▶
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. ✨ Robert Frost (1955). Selected poems
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

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