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"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton 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

Robert Frost A poet who hinted and inspired with the unforgettable beauty of his words, Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was born in San Francisco, California and moved to New England after his father's death in 1885. 

"All the fun’s in how you say a thing," believed Frost who sold his first poem, My Butterfly, in 1894. The writer tried farming and teaching until he was 39 when he published his first book, A Boy's Will.

His view of life was inspired by four beliefs: self-belief, love-belief, art-belief, and God-belief. He carved his words in celebration of these tenants. "Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better," he said.

America's unofficial poet laureate once called himself "an awakener," won four Pulitzer Prizes (1924, 1931, 1937, 1943), and recited two works at John F. Kennedy's 1961 Presidential inauguration.

"Any work of art must first of all tell a story," Frost said.

His cherished lines are easy-to-read and understand and continue to be paraphrased and quoted: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down" or "Good fences make good neighbors." (Mending Wall, 1915); "For this is love and nothing else is love," (A Prayer in Spring, 1915). And a personal favorite:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
     I took the one less traveled by,
     And that has made all the difference.

(The Road Not Taken, 1916)

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Robert FrostTake the hint.