---The Road Not Taken---
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; 5
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, 10
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. 15
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. 20
-Robert Frost, circa 1920
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This is not a story of good-choice versus bad-choice. Spend a day on it.
"Yet knowing how way leads onto way,
I doubted if I should ever come back."
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; 5
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, 10
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. 15
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. 20
-Robert Frost, circa 1920
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This is not a story of good-choice versus bad-choice. Spend a day on it.
"Yet knowing how way leads onto way,
I doubted if I should ever come back."
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TheJOKERSaid : ....and here we go... on March 19, 2009im pretty sure i know who ur talkin bout cuz he was the same way, didnt read between the lines haha... and ur god damn right you should apologize for your childish behavior...you cant judge a book by its cover, YOU of all people should know that with how highly you have spoken of yourself in our "comments"....and dont play this pity card with me cuz that is basically what your surrender sounded like...big fuckin deal i'm "crazy", i have alot of problems, but unlike the rest of the world instead of bringin myself down and draggin everyone else with me i chose to find the humor in life and try to make people laugh...but thats the the problem with twisted humor such as mine...you ALWAYS take hits from people who just dont get the joke...i speak for the people pushed to the underground and off to the sides of society who dont know how to speak for themselves cuz the worlds a fucked up place and we take hits from people like you all the time. I'm sorry that not everyone is as "smart" as you or as "talented" as you but man we're people too...ok so you had a bad spout with drugs and shit...everyone has they problems, thats like a serial killer getting offended by some of the shit i say...alot of what i say is meant to be funny, life shouldnt be taken this seriously, thats why people kill themselves.... im sure you've been through some shit but remember, i never once judged you until you showed me ur personality... which is ugly...and by the way
-wont die- was my gift to you and your kind... get off your high horse cuz your shit stinks jus like the rest of ours, sorry to break it to ya...i hope for your sake you learn to laugh sometime or you will drive yourself mad.....nice to meet you have a good one...
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on Nonsense by HelloMyNameIsJesus, on September 1, 2009Haha. Enjoyable. You make your line true by making it itself that which it is about. You're clever.
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Alas, such pain is unavoidable. But, it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all
