Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in t…

Robert Frost
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. ✨ Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). Selected letters
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Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. ✨ Robert Frost (2012). A Boy's Will and North of Boston, p.7, Courier Corporation
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. ✨ Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). Selected letters

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