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Reader Quotes by Robert Frost
- It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The…
- There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind.…
- No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
- The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
- The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were…
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