- nature's first green is gold, / her hardest hue to hold. / her early leaf's a flower, / but only so an hour. / then leaf subsides to leaf, / so eden sank to grief. / so dawn goes down to day, / nothing gold can stay.

- where did you learn that? that's what i meant.

- Robert Frost wrote it. i always remembered it because i never quite knew what he meant.







(the outsiders - francis ford coppola, 1983)