Quotation by Robert Frost

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.'
Robert Frost (1874–1963), U.S. poet. Mending Wall (l. 32–36). . .

The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.
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