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Quotation from Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval by Robert Frost

“"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in." "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve."”

Robert Frost (spoken by Warren and Mary)

Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, North of Boston, The Death of the Hired Man (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Robert Frost

The couple's two definitions of home as they decide whether to take back Silas.

Citation: ""Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in." "I should have called it Something you somehow haven't to deserve."" — Robert Frost, Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, North of Boston, The Death of the Hired Man (Project Gutenberg text). (id frost-early-poems-q4)

Portrait: Robert Frost NYWTS, Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain.

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