Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

    The Road Not Taken

    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; 5

    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, 10

    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. 15

    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. 20
    人生充满选择，就像林间的路一样。
    路上还有要选择的路，所以当放弃掉一条道路的时候，也许就是永远地放弃。
    很多年很多年以后，也许我们会轻轻叹息：我们的境遇都源于当初所选择的道路。
    选择哪条路和选择以哪种心境去走路对于没有回头路的一生来说都是重要的.假如,在无奈的岁月里,在两可之间,偏偏就选了那样一种境遇,选了就选了,微笑着走下去,就把它看作是我们最"对"的选择.珍视它,象珍视自己的健康,在日子流去的过程中,它忠实地记录着你的青春岁月你的才思敏捷你的笑你的泪你的付出. 鸟儿飞过,他留下痕迹.

    For long stretches, Gore is photographed talking before an audience with the aid of slides and charts. There are side trips to fissured ice caps, disappearing glaciers—the snows of yesteryear—and expanses of newly parched and broken terrain. The science is detailed, deep-layered, vivid, and terrifying. Every school, college, and church group, and everyone else beyond the sway of General Motors, ExxonMobil, and the White House should see this movie, and, with luck, they will. It’s great propaganda, but there are also passages in which Gore, off camera, speaks in an intimate voice that we’ve never heard before. He talks about lying beside a river on a lazy summer day—the commonplace idyll of a lone person in a tranquil ecstasy, utterly at home in nature. “An Inconvenient Truth” begins that way, and each time Gore returns to this enraptured mood, after a procession of nightmares and dangers, it has greater resonance. He knows that people find him exasperating, and he has learned to modulate his voice; one has the impression of a complex personality that has gone through loss, humiliation, a cruel breaking down of the ego, and then has reintegrated itself at a higher level. In the movie he is merely excellent. But in person—he is on a speaking tour to promote the movie—he presents a combination of intellectual force, emotional vibrancy, and moral urgency that has hardly been seen in American public life in recent years. It will be interesting to watch how skeptics will deal with Gore’s bad news on the environment without making themselves look very small.

    The New Yorker