# The Road Not Taken

*by Robert Frost*

By [Rajya](https://paragraph.com/@rajya) · 2024-05-10

robert frost, poem

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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.

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