The Road Not Taken

Every work of art floats above the circumstances that gave rise to it. A clear example of this is The Road Not Taken, the beautiful poem that Robert Frost wrote on the pretext of a rather petty situation — and to which, to his astonishment, more seriousness was attributed than he deemed would be appropriate. After reading the poem, I apologize for taking the road of gravity, not the road of triviality. Yet it was Frost himself who admitted he was never as serious as when he was joking.

(to Luciana; to Isabella)