The Road Not Taken

Another one of my favorites:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost
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Frost is one of my fav poets. Don't know if you knew - U.S. Presidents select a poet to write and read a special poem at their inaugurations - he was chosen by JFK - he wrote a poem especially for the occasion - but when he came to the podium - the sun was so bright he was blinded by the glare and was unable to read the poem he originally intended - so he improvised and recited from memory one he had written over 20 years earlier.
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