The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in a clarification of life—not necessarily a great clarification, such as Lowell or Emerson or Wordsworth might have given, but a momentary stay against confusion.
— Robert Frost Modern

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Preface to 'Collected Poems' (1939)

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1939

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/302/302-h/302-h.htm

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