Robert Frost's Quote - You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part

Quote by Robert Frost

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. – Robert Frost

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost

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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. – Robert Frost

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There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks…. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V

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Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. – Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way, 1990

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Among the losses punctuation suffers through the decay of language is the slash mark or diagonal… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V

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The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can’t keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

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