No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

1939

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1939

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Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. — Robert Frost

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