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Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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I like poems that are little games.

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I like poems that are complex.

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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

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In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 27th, 1928

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