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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Poet
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
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A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do.
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Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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I play better tennis because the court is there.
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.
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