The Road Not Taken
Poem by Robert FrostWikipedia
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Oct 29, 2026
Steven KnepperGUEST
You can make a reference to it in a TV show and people get it.
Steven KnepperGUEST
You know, I mean, I really do think, I mean, think of The Raven, you think of Frost's The Road Not Taken, you think of maybe Langston Hughes' Harlem.
Steven KnepperGUEST
I mean, there's a very short list of poems that just have recognition in the broad reading public.
Steven KnepperGUEST
I mentioned before we started recording that the Simpsons have an episode with a dramatization of the Raven.
Raphael ChaoGUEST
And that's what actually our brand stands for.
Jeffrey YoungHOST
Wow, that reminds me of a very mindful, beautiful poem by Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.
Jeffrey YoungHOST
I think the end of the poem says something like, and I chose the road less traveled, and that made all the difference.
Raphael ChaoGUEST
I like that.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
I've tried to strike a balance there.
Sam HankinHOST
And one of the aphorisms, cliches, I don't know what to call them sometimes, idioms is from Robert Frost and it's from the poem, The Road Less Traveled.
Sam HankinHOST
So that's essentially the phrase.
Sam HankinHOST
In the book, you suggest that it doesn't mean what those words actually appear to be.
Sam HankinHOST
Whereas in my own mind, once I recognized in that poem that there was a road that was more well trod than the other.
Sam HankinHOST
I assumed that meant the road, the traveler took him in a place where other men had not gone lightly and thus changed his life forever.
Sam HankinHOST
You don't say that, you say something else.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
So this is a big one that kind of falls under the commonly misunderstood, widely misunderstood quotes.
Lasse RindomGUEST
I'm not going to cut off.
Lasse RindomGUEST
Have you read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost?
Ian BarkinHOST
The poem? Yeah.
Lasse RindomGUEST
Read that one again and then you'll feel a little bit better with yourself because no matter which path you take, you took that path, right? And I think sometimes in tech and in tech FOMO, that's what you need to remember.
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Perhaps that was not a difficult decision to make, but it certainly was a potentially life-altering one.
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The American poet Robert Frost mused upon this idea in his well-known poem, The Road Not Taken.
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It begins, two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and concludes with the author stating that his choice has made all the difference.
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That is a life principle, isn't it? Decisions have consequences.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
But Robert Frost, it turns out, was playing a bit of trick on all of us.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
So if you read the poem carefully, the poem is called The Road Not Taken.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
He, uh, the, the kind of rambler at the fork in the road, uh, says, if you read carefully, that the two roads equally lay in leaves and had been worn really about the same.
Pete McMurrayHOST
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Brice SokolowskiGUEST
Ever since I quit my corporate job and my 9:00 to 5:00 and the road less traveled, right? Isn't that Robert Frost? I was gonna say Robert Frost.
Brice SokolowskiGUEST
That I'm not a poet guy, but I remember reading that poem, I believe it was sophomore year of high school, The Road Less Taken, and it just really clicked with me, and that has made all the difference.
DocHOST
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Neil L. AndersenGUEST
Elder Neal A. Maxwell said, "Without real faith and its attendant submissiveness, people sooner or later will find one thing or another to stumble over." To settle this in your heart is to courageously choose the road of discipleship with a determination to never turn away.
Neil L. AndersenGUEST
As a young man, I first discovered Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken.
Neil L. AndersenGUEST
You know these words, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler.
Neil L. AndersenGUEST
Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.
Rupert FordhamHOST
Yeah.
Rupert FordhamHOST
And probably most famous for his poem The, The Road Not Taken.
Charlie FordhamHOST
Yes.
Rupert FordhamHOST
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both," and all that.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
So now we're really getting to the territory of commonly misunderstood quotes.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
So The Road Less Traveled is this well-known quote from a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
The line is, I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
And it is everywhere in popular American culture.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
And yet, if we turn our own lives into a kind of story, that is us going our own way.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
So it kind of comes full circle.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
And, you know, it says, well, if we're If we're kind of shaping our lives into this narrative, you know, what is that but going out on our own and taking the road less traveled? And I think an interesting way of looking at it is even in the title, right? The title is The Road Not Taken.
Eli BurnsteinGUEST
And in the popular interpretation, you know, the meaning is it's the road less traveled.
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