春季三月出生的二十世紀美國詩人羅伯特‧佛洛斯特這首〈沒有被選的路（The Road Not Taken）〉是我很喜歡的詩。人生有很多時候必須作選擇，有的選擇讓人後悔，有的選擇卻無悔無怨；有些選擇簡單，有些選擇困難；有些被選出的路平坦順遂，有些被選出的路崎嶇坎坷。最後一段詩節可以看出，選擇並不能保證無悔，但是詩人明白，當下的所有，都是當初一個個不同的選擇累積，帶有些許人生告白（confession）意味。

沒有被選的路
作：羅伯‧佛洛斯特

兩路分歧黃樹林中，
可惜我無法都走
而旅人隻身，我佇立良久
極目眺望一路之盡頭
見它蜿蜒隱沒；

而選另一條，秀麗依舊，
也許引人更勝，
因它綠草茵茵而盼人行走；
即使回首路過
人跡並無不同，

而清晨兩路同延
落葉下無足跡沉踏顏色。
喔，我把第一條留到另一天！
然知路路相連，
我懷疑我該會回頭。

我該會嘆息地這麼說
那此後某個時空：
兩路分歧樹林中，而我──
我選了那條少人行至的路，
而那就造就了所有的不同。

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

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.