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On April 23, 1965: American composer Randall Thompson marks his retirement from the Harvard faculty conducting the debut of his orchestrated arrangement of "Frostiana: Seven Country Songs" with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society singing poetry of #RobertFrost.

#Poetry #March #RobertFrost

I'm late with the actual mid March date, but still:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep” 🌲… but the highways are icy and wide. See how Memaw rolls 💅🚙
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💻 👉 https://tinyurl.com/4wysh8m9
#ParksHighway #SewardHighway #SterlingHighway #GlennHighway #KnikGooseBayRd #MemawsCommute #Alaska #Traffic #Weather #Travel #RobertFrost

The inscription on Robert Frost's tombstone is “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” which is the last line of his poem The Lesson for Today. On his birthday, 10 facts about Robert Frost.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/26-march-robert-frost.html

#BirthAnniversary #RobertFrost #Poets #Writers

Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised.
-- Robert Frost

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertFrost #Change #Fences

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Literary ass bumper sticker idea: "i side with those who favor fire"

#fuckICE #RobertFrost

3 simple words that helped Robert Frost stay resilient through a lifetime of anxiety and depression

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/3-simple-words-of-advice-that-helped-robert-frost-stay-resilient-through-a-lifetime-of-anxiety-and-depression

Mending Wall by #RobertFrost.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

#Poetry #Prose #Poem #FavePoems

Nothing Gold Can Stay by #RobertFrost.

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,

Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

#Poetry #Prose #Poem

I sent this out to subscribers yesterday: a solstice newsletter that travels in place and time from the frozen River Thames of the Little Ice Age, via a snowy woodland and the poetry of Robert Frost, to a wintry Christmas walk 15 years ago.

https://www.mattpedals.bike/solstice-promise/

#writing #biketooter #walking #solstice #robertfrost #frostfair

Where my imaginary line
Bends square in woods, an iron spine
And pile of real rocks have been founded.
And off this corner in the wild,
Where these are driven in and piled,
One tree, by being deeply wounded,
Has been impressed as Witness Tree
And made commit to memory
My proof of being not unbounded.
Thus truth's established and borne out,
Though circumstanced with dark and doubt --
Though by a world of doubt surrounded.
THE MOODIE FORESTER

-- "Beech" by Robert Frost

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I've been reading Robert Frost's *A Witness Tree*, the first full volume I've read of his (although as a volume, it's really quite slim).

Thought I'd share a few reading notes here.

#ReadingNotes #RobertFrost #Poetry #Bookstodon

Oh, stormy stormy world,
The days you were not swirled
Around with mist and cloud,
Or wrapped as in a shroud,
And the sun's brilliant ball
Was not in part or all
Obscured from mortal view--
Were days so very few
I can but wonder whence
I get the lasting sense
Of so much warmth and light.
If my mistrust is right
It may be altogether
From one day's perfect weather,
When starting clear at dawn,
The day swept clearly on
To finish clear at eve.
I verily believe
My fair impression may
Be all from that one day
No shadow crossed but ours
As through its blazing flowers
We went from house to wood
For change of solitude.

-- Robert Frost, "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length"

#TodaysPoem #Poetry #RobertFrost

Never tear down a fence until you know why it was raised.
-- Robert Frost

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertFrost #Change #Fences

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔" -

What is Robert Frost doing in the Spiderverse? You can't know unless you reach further than typical classroom reading!

New to 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴? Start here, with this introduction, and get a taste of what the larger series offers!

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/literary-nomads-for-students/

#podcast #literature #books #bookpodcast #bookstagram #literarylovers #bookboost #booklover #bookclub #robertfrost #theroadnottaken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
and having choice paralysis
I turned and went home.

#apologies #RobertFrost #poetry #choice

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔" -

What is this podcast, anyway? I recommend you start here, with this introduction to Literary Nomads and get a taste of what the larger series offers! (Oh, and we talk about--no kidding--"The Road Not Taken")

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/literary-nomads-for-readers/

#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #introduction #robertfrost #readers #theroadnottaken #renemagritte #thetreacheryofimages #misreading

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two fans insufficient to cool a room, and I—
Cleaned the dust bunnies from both,
And that has made all the difference.

#Poetry #RobertFrost

Excellence

… excellence is not a law of physics. Excellence is a moral act.

You create excellence by deciding to do so, nothing more. It doesn’t matter if you went to the wrong school, or were born on the wrong side of the tracks, or working the wrong job.

You go into the situation and you go the extra mile. Your decision. You own it. You own the potential downsides as well.

~ Huch MacLeod

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I have a hard time distinguishing when I’m in the pursuit of excellence from when I’m in the paralysis of perfection. In my mind I can see so many options, permutations and problems, and my thinking wants to race down every path. Which path leads to excellence? Which path leads only to perfection? I spent a lot of time—let’s say the ’90s and ’00s—checking every available path to see where they led.

But I don’t want to do that any more. Here are things I’m doing, and of course I’ll do them with excellence. And over there? Over there are the rest of the paths throughout the entire universe which I’m perfectly fine leaving to others. The universe did just fine before I was here, and it will continue to be fine after.

You know that great Robert Frost poem about two paths diverging in a wood? Turns out that it does not matter which path you choose… until you’ve gone so far down that path that you cannot return and go the other way. Only then have you actually chosen.

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§3 – The rose that grew from concrete

Resilience.

Why does Parkour so effectively teach resilience? Because your regular world and your regular life are DESIGNED for your interaction. Stairs are a certain height, walking surfaces are smooth and even, door knobs are convenient, chairs, air conditioning, trains and autos; Everything you interact with is designed for human interaction. In a very real sense, that’s what “civilized” means.

Have you ever stopped to consider something as simple and common as doorways? What would life like, if – just for some historic reason – every doorway was only 4 feet high? Life would be much better simply because everyone would have to bend over regularly!

What if stairs were the norm? What if walking was the norm?

When you begin exploring your world through the lens of Parkour, you are told to intentionally seek out challenges. In Parkour practice, you’re exposing yourself to a hard choice: Bend your mind and body to the challenge, or face pain and injury. A good coach sets you up for success, but you’re still told to go under that railing, climb over that wall, and put your hands on that rough concrete. You have to teach your mind and body how to be resilient so that you can rediscover the ways already within yourself to interact with an environment that is, at best, indifferent to your wellbeing.

Once you see things differently, you can start interacting with things that were specifically designed for some reason other than human interaction. You start by looking at your world this way as part of a specific practice; “I’m going to class and the instructor makes us do this”. Eventually, the mindset becomes comfortable on its own without prompting, and you begin to automatically practice a mindful resilience in your daily life.

How could I get to that place over there without using that obvious pedestrian route? How would I get down there, or up there? Why am I eating inside when it’s so nice outside? What would I do if an emergency happened right now?

Once you are well and truly comfortable with the resilient mindset, your body relaxes and the physical uncertainty, or even fear, that you were unconsciously feeling goes away. In it’s place wells up good old natural Human Curiosity. Your mind says, “Sure, let’s go this other way,” and, “Let’s take this road less travelled.” It really does make all the difference.

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, from The Road Not Taken

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Through

The only way out is through.

~ Robert Frost

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