Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. - Robert Frost

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

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About Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (26 March 1874 – 29 January 1963) was an American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer (Public domain / CC0)

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Alternative Names: Robert Lee Frost

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My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beautiful as days can be; She loves the bare, the withered tree; She walks the sodden pasture lane.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.

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