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Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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What are we? Young or new? We must be something.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
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I never take my own side in a quarrel.
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Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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Courage is of the heart by derivation, And great it is. But fear is of the soul.
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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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