Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Road Not Taken

I remembered this poem while adding some details to my report and thinking about "change" , aiming to put change in practice is like choosing the "less travelled road", I think, by challenging the established systems in our institutions, and in our own teaching we all choose that less travelled road. then the poem is for all courageous hearts.

wishing you all the best

sebnem

"Road at Chantilly" by Paul Cézanne



Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

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.

Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1970
by Leslie Frost Ballantine.

1 comment:

  1. Hello Sebnem,

    This poem from Robert Frost is indeed one of the literary treasures of all time and is but fit specially for us who continually search ways to effect change and make a difference.

    I wish you always the best.

    REBECCA

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