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And then a new one.

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I want to read some
really new ones first.

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This is about Robert Frost,
a meeting with Robert Frost.

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"Worldly Failure."

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I looked into the eyes
of Robert Frost once,

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and they were unnaturally deep.

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Set far back in the skull,
as far back in the earth.

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An oblique glance made
them look even deeper.

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He stood inside the door on
Brewster Street, looking out.

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I proffered him an invitation.

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We went on talking for
an hour and a half.

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To accept or not to
accept was his question.

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Whether he wanted to
meet another poet,

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he erred in sensing
some intangible slight.

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Hard for him to make
a democratic leap.

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To be a natural poet you
have to be unnaturally deep.

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While he was talking he was
looking out, but stayed in,

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sagacity better indoors.

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He became a metaphor
for inner devastation,

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too scared to accept
my invitation.

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