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3 Words We Must Always Remember According to Robert Frost

Posted Oct 21, 2020

Poet Robert Frost

Robert Frost, the famed American poet, answered a question during his 80th birthday celebration. I find his words useful as our world battles the Covid19 pandemic.

“In all your years and all your travels,” I asked, “what do you think is the most important thing you’ve learned about life?”

He paused a moment, then with the twinkle sparkling under those brambly eyebrows he replied: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.

In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles . . . with politicians and people slinging the word fear around, all of us become discouraged . . . tempted to say this is the end, the finish. But life — it goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.