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 have a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. Reading of The Lesson for Today at Harvard University. 20 June 1941, Phi Beta Kappa Society meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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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 have a lovers quarrel with the world.