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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.
- Robert Frost

It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has.
- Robert Frost

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.
- Robert Frost

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

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
- Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

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

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.
- Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.
- Robert Frost