“For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.”

—  Robert Frost, book Mountain Interval

Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
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Context: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.

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