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POETRY

the man in the arena
the road not taken
if


 
The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

 
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;

​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, 
​
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. 

​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.
~ Robert Frost

 
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;   
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;   
  If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;   
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same;   
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
  And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,   
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,   
  Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,   
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   
  And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
~ Rudyard Kipling


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        • Spruce Mountain
        • Upper Palmer Lake
        • Mount Herman Trail
        • Section 16 (Black Forest)
        • The Pineries
        • Fox Run Park
        • Austin Bluffs Open Space
        • Ute Valley Park
        • Red Rocks Open Space
        • Cheyenne Mountain State Park
        • Barr Trail to Barr Camp
        • Stanley Canyon
      • Colorado Springs Area >
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        • The Crags
        • Mueller State Park
        • Devil's Head Lookout
        • Bison Peak
        • Pancake Rocks
        • Kenosha Pass
      • 14ers >
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        • Mount Democrat
        • DeCaLiBron
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