A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an eff — Robert Frost
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

— Robert Frost
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