In 1955, Robert Frost — the only poet ever to receive four Pulitzer Prizes — gave the commencement address at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College. In his speech to the graduating students, he gave some advice that on first impression smacks of rather unpoetic conformity: “Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept.” But Frost wasn’t recommending blind acceptance. He told the students to take what they were given and remake it in their own way. It reminds us to embrace the circumstances we encounter in life and creatively shape them to our own purpose, rather than stubbornly trying to resist them. “My object in life,” Frost explained, “has been to hold my own with whatever’s going — not against, but with — to hold my own.”