“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” 

So said Robert Frost on his eightieth birthday when journalist Ray Josephs asked him what the most important thing he has learned about life.

The full quote as captured in Josephs’ ‘This Week Magazine’ article:

“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. In all the confusions of today, with all our troubles . . . with politicians and people slinging the word fear around, all of us become discouraged . . . tempted to say this is the end, the finish. But life — it goes on. It always has. It always will. Don’t forget that.’

Source: Quote Investigator. Graphic: Robert Frost c 1910s. Public Domain.