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Quotation from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
“Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.”
The Road Not Taken, Stanza 3, lines 13-15 (Mountain Interval, 1916)
The traveler's half-hearted promise to return, undone by his knowledge that one choice leads to the next.
Citation: "Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back." — Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Stanza 3, lines 13-15 (Mountain Interval, 1916). (id the-road-not-taken-q4)
Portrait: RoadAtlantic, Robert Frost, Public domain.
