Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.