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Robert Frost

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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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"Lives of the Poets : The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry (1959) by Louis Untermeyer

 
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