Diverge

Note: Yesterday would have been poet Robert Frost’s 145th birthday. Don’t need much more excuse than that for a little medley. How you apply them to your life today or to the world is your business. —TP

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”  

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” 

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.” 

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”  

“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” 

“I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.” 

 

—Robert Frost (1874-1963), a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner who sold his first poem at 20 for $15, launching a career that made him America’s poet.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: That’s me, well mixed.

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