In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On - ROBERT FROST

Had Robert Frost been alive, he would be 134 come 26th March.

Hmmm...that doesn't sound like a remarkably realistic introduction, does it?:) But it is Robert Frost we are talking about here. Is an introduction necessary at all? :)

Anyway, I was reading Frost's poems and discovered some rather interesting ones that are not as commonly quoted as his other famous ones...thought I'd post some as part of my countdown-to-his-birthday-posts. :)

FIRE AND ICE

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.


WHAT FIFTY SAID

When I was young my teachers were the old.
I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
I suffered like a metal being cast.
I went to school to age to learn the past.

Now I am old my teachers are the young.
What can't be molded must be cracked and sprung.
I strain at lessons fit to start a suture.
I go to school to youth to learn the future.