We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace. T.E. Lawrence
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In this quote, Robert Frost describes a moment in time where something new is being created. That something new is a world that will never be experienced before by the ages. In the moment of creation, people are filled with hope as they imagine what they can create as a result from this new world. The people who live in those moments, those "new men," have no idea what will happen to them after they have made their victory.

They don't know what it will be like to live in a world that has been destroyed and then rebuilt again. They don't know that there will be a war against these "old men" who won their victory to remake it into what they know instead of something new and different. They don't know that another group of men will come to take away their victory and put it into nothingness.

Source: Seven Pillars Of Wisdom: A Triumph

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