Frost "AGAINST THE DAY" (has this been mentioned yet?)

[Lemuel Underwing]

>From Robert Frost's "The Figure a Poem Makes":

The impressions most useful to my purpose seem always those I was unaware
of and so made no note of at the time when taken, and the conclusion is come
to that like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave
the future with *against the day *when we may want to strike a line of
purpose across it
for somewhere. The line will have the more charm for not being mechanically
straight. We enjoy the straight crookedness of a good walking stick. Modern
instruments
of precision are being used to make things crooked as if by eye and hand in
the old days.
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