“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
a selection of Robert Frost poems (including Birches)
a sample from Birches:
I'd like to get
away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.
May no fate willfully misunderstand me
And half grant what I wish and snatch me away
Not to return. Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches
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Douglas Copland - All Families are Psychotic, Life After God, Shampoo Planet, Girlfriend in a Coma
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Timothy Findley - Dust to Dust
Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient