Robert Frost Quotes

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

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• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Music
  • May
  • Alone