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Dear Gift Horse: Right back to square one. He went to
England on a shoestring. How could he have counted on
acceptance there? Particularly as he was more than a bit
abrasive,and had a talent for alienating people. I'm
tempted to jest that he went to England because he had
made few friends in US.
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Hey Bill!
I've honestly no idea why he really went to England on a shoestring. I have a book of his complete works, but it doesn't contain a biography. I'll keep looking around and see what I can come up with. It's a good question.
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I'm sure there were many fences that needed mending...
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He went to England on a shoestring.
Shoestring must have gone further in those days, wwh.
Nowadays an abrasive poet is lucky to have shoes on his feet. His verse may be freer, but the cost of travel has gone way up.
A poet's purse is seldom as good as his verse, even at the best of times.
Why did the poet cross the pond? Perhaps he crossed the pond in the hope that his absence would make hearts grow fonder.
The arts are a fickle mistress. When a poet has celebrity, the arts are doting. When not, they are mostly doubting. Talent usually has nothing to do with it.
A poet who makes it abroad can be a sensation back home even if he doesn't actually "make it" there.
Snubbing the arts is often the best way to win them over. [Which may explain why Frost came back over ... and the arts are the better for it in spite of their fickle ways.]
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Prophets are not without honor save in their own country,
but I never heard that said of poets.
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Bill, Frost is certainly not the only person who has packed up his things and moved to some foreign place, different country, different state, different city to find his fortune.
Believers believe, with every fibre they believe. Some of them make it, others don't. He was lucky enough to have made it.
BIT OF AN EDIT BEFORE ANYBODY COMMENTS... Yes I wrote he was LUCKY enough to have made it, and I know some people will scoff at the use of lucky because they believe that hard work is the only way a person can gain success, but I know great believers who've worked extremely hard, yet amounted to nothing. So I believe hard work is not all you need to achieve success. There is a whole mix of things that make you successful and I do believe that a bit of luck tacked on to all those things can will make a hell of a difference.
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Too bad we know so little about why Frost left Dartmouth and
Harvard. And so little about his intellectual efforts during
his ten years of operating the farm.
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Prophets are not without honor save in their own country, but I never heard that said of poets.
There is more money in being a prophet than a poet, wwh, and the country pays more honor to profits than to poets.
The same holds true of unprofitable prophets.
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Scientology has proved that there is money in establishing
a phony religion.
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the country pays more honor to profits
For those who also speak French, please excuse the repetition.
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