Robert Frost — a remark

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“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.”

Suggesting humorously that excessive conversation can dissipate the energy that might otherwise become writing · Remark quoted in Vogue, 15 March 1963

About Robert Frost

Robert Frost

26 March 1874–29 January 1963

Robert Lee Frost was born on 26 March 1874 in San Francisco, California, at a distance both geographical and imaginative from the New England landscape with which his name would become permanently associated. His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a Harvard-educated teacher turned journalist and political…

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