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nothing gold can stay

nothing gold can stay proverb: nothing good lasts forever.

Proverb

nothing gold can stay

  1. Nothing good lasts forever.
    • 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.1923 October, Robert Lee Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, in The Yale Review

Synonyms of nothing gold can stay

Origin of nothing gold can stay

Coined by American poet Robert Frost in 1923 in his short poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” the theme of which is change and ephemerality.

Questions about nothing gold can stay

What does nothing gold can stay mean?
Nothing gold can stay means nothing good lasts forever.
What part of speech is nothing gold can stay?
Nothing gold can stay is a proverb.

Words near nothing gold can stay in the dictionary

  1. nothing could be farther from the truth
  2. nothing could be further from the truth
  3. nothing doing
  4. nothing else for it
  5. nothing for it
  6. nothing gold can stay
  7. nothing if not
  8. nothing is certain but death and taxes
  9. nothing is said that has not been said before
  10. nothing less than
  11. nothing like

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