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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Something there is that doesn't love a wall

I had a flashback literary moment today.  While listening to a lecture about nursing theory, a phrase came into my head.  The phrase was "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."  It took me a minute to remember what it was from.  I actually had an image of where I heard it first (class at Timpview High School), rather than the origin of the phrase.  I remembered that it comes from Mending Wall, a poem by Robert Frost.  I am not really even sure why I thought of it.  We were discussing a lot of different things.  Maybe my subconscious was having an "ah--ha" moment that it was trying to clue me in on.  

Or maybe my high school english teacher just did an incredible job of ingraining it in my long term memory.  


I looked it up....


Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast...

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