Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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Topic

Home

Author

Robert Frost

Source

The Death of the Hired Man

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

Current Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.

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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

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Topic
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Speaker
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1919 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

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Source
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

Current Citation

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Another quote from 1914

My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

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Topic
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Author

James Joyce
Source
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Medium
Short story
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners. Grant Richards Ltd., 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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Topic
Nature of reality
Speaker
Philip K. Dick
Medium
Speech
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1978 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Dick, Phillip. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." 1978, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, USA. Speech.