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.

nothing gold can stay

1. Nothing good lasts forever.

   Synonym: all good things come to an end

   • 1923 October, Robert Lee Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, in The Yale Review:

     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.

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