Chapter 27A Wall And Two Roads
When Robert Frost, my favorite poet, was
asked to explain one of his poems, he replied, "What do
you want me to do-say it over in worser English?"Such language! And from one of the men who
used our language best of all.
No, Mr. Frost, we don't want you to say it over
in worser English. But I want to say it over. Not that
you didn't make it clear, but because it needs repeating
again and again. Besides, I am much more experienced
in saying things in worser English than you were.
Now that poem you wrote about a wall...
You said, "Before I built a wall, 1'd ask to know
what I was walling in and walling out. Something there
is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down."
And your neighbor replied that: "Good fences
make good neighbors."