Lazy Hand’s Quotes Collection

The Road not Taken

March 12th, 2006

The Road not Taken
Robert Frost : Mountain Interval (1920)

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.

This poem has been helping me well in the telling of my stories. Everytime someone asked “why?”, I would promptly show him the poem and thus answered the question.

It is also sometimes refered to (wrongly) as “The Path Less Traveled” , “The Path Less Taken”, “The Road Less Traveled” or “The Road Less Taken”. The Road Less Traveled is actually a book by Scott Peck, a self-help book.

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