Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

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ASHLAND Nature has always been a friend to Steve Holt. “As a young man, I often went to the hills for solace, roaming and thinking,” he said, noting he hunted and fished with his father, but that wasn ...

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They also wrote her a poem, saying she was "kind and caring and did not judge". According to Thames Valley Police, Ms Goswell ...

Upon reading his letter, the words of German pastor Martin Niemöller immediately came to mind. As a response to the Nazis’ oppression, Niemöller made this postwar statement. (Editor’s note: It is ...

You know, I've seen this kind of thing happen before as a writer ... And he wrote a whole series of wonderfully short, aphoristic poems. They're very brief. They're tight. They're rueful, full ...

The teenager, who does not have a lawful status, was in a car on his way to work when he was arrested and detained by Border Patrol. He's now in federal custody in New York.

Frost himself thought enough of the poem to include it, 19 years later, in his first collection, A Boy’s Will—where it acts as a kind of remedial ... at all has already short-circuited my ...