The road not taken

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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton

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Topic

The road not taken Grass is always greener Counterfactual history

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Burnt Norton Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 1.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Maud Muller

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Topic

The road not taken Regrets

Author

John Greenleaf Whittier

Source

Maud Muller

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." The Panorama and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856, st. 53.

Current Citation

Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems. Library of America, 2004.

The history of things that didn’t happen has never been written.

Henry Kissinger

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Topic

Counterfactual history The road not taken The past History

Speaker

Henry Kissinger

Source

Kissinger 1923-1968

Medium

Interview

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Kissinger, Henry. Letter to Oriana Fallaci. 4 Nov. 1972.

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

Actions have consequences The road not taken The past

Speaker

Lady Macbeth

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith

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Topic

Regrets The road not taken

Author

Mitch Albom

Source

Have a Little Faith

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Topic

Middle age The road not taken Shrinking horizons Aging

Author

Donald Justice

Source

Men at Forty

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Topic

Missed opportunities The road not taken FOMO

Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Source

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.