Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Lives of the Poets : The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry (1959) by Louis Untermeyer
1950s
“It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs.”
Rectorial Address, Glasgow (November 16, 1900), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
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1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989), Farewell Address (1989)
Context: The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we're a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.
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Walter M. Miller, Jr. book A Canticle for Leibowitz
Ch 28
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Voluntas Tua
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
General sources
Context: 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.