The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in…

Robert Frost
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ✨ Collected Poems preface (1939)
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