Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert Lee Frost, 88, poet; of a pulmonary embolism; in Boston (see BOOKS...
...carved into one). No man seemed more natively American. "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit," said President Kennedy. But ironically, Robert Frost was 40 years old, with his life nearly half over, before the people of the U.S. recognized him as a poet, and then they learned it from the British. For those 40 years, he was an isolated man. isolated physically on a bleak farm in New-England, isolated poetically as he slowly worked out his grindstone-plain style. Yet, as it falls to few men and almost never to poets, Robert Frost...
Chimes & Symbols. Like many another poet, Frost wrote his own epitaph...
...drop of a question. Asked his opinion of free verse, he said: "I would as soon play tennis without a net." Asked whether literature was an escape, he snapped: "The weak think they are escaping; the strong think they are pursuing." In his latter-day person as unofficial poet laureate, he journeyed to Russia and talked to Khrushchev, whom he pronounced "a grand old ruffian," and added with characteristically evenhanded egotism: "We were charmed with each other. I could talk out to him, and he could talk...
...this Union are the fundamental sources of all sovereignty and all power. The Constitution merely states, in the form of a written contract, the degree of sovereignty that the states transfer to the federal government. The sovereignty was principally in the field of defense and operating highways and poet offices. The sovereignty of the states flows both upward and downward--upward to the federal government and downward to the counties and municipalities. Some theorists try to reduce the principle of states rights to an absurdity by saying that if states have a right to disagree with matters of national policy...