Stay Gold, Ponyboy

Nothing Gold Can Stay

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.

-Robert Frost, 1923

From S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders 

Johnny: It’s like the mist is what’s pretty, ya know? All gold and silver.

Ponyboy: Hmm

Johnny: Too bad it can’t stay like that all the time.

Ponyboy: Nothing gold can stay.

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Johnny’s last lines to Ponyboy: Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.

Logan Kroeber

 

WE LOVE YOU CHRIS

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4 responses to “Stay Gold, Ponyboy

  1. Rena Nicole's avatar Rena Nicole

    Love this, love you.

  2. Dan Cherwoniak's avatar Dan Cherwoniak

    like so much of what Chris is about, it resonates at a very deep level.
    With gratitude and respect.
    Chris’ Uncle Dan

  3. I never knew Chris… I’m merely a fan… but everything I’ve ever heard about him makes me wish I knew him. In a very superficial and not really knowing way other than his music, I love Chris.

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