“And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.”

The Lesson for Today [1942]

Robert Frost

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company 1955. Page 881.

To read the full poem: English Literature.