It isn't a poem, it's a proverb.
The proper saying is, "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
The saying is " A rolling stone gathers no moss." It means if you keep moving and learning that you don't just sit there becoming a couch potato.
If a person never stays in one place, he or she never "gathers" or gets attached to things or people. Moss grows on stones which have been on the ground for many years, so a stone which rolls cannot grow moss.
It means someone who does not put down roots and is constantly on the move and comes from the proverb, "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
No, it comes from the phrase "A rolling stone gathers no moss", which inspired the name of the band and the song "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan, but the magazine was not named after the band.
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The proper saying is, "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
Er..... I think you mean the old saying "a rolling stone gathers no moss."
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The saying is " A rolling stone gathers no moss." It means if you keep moving and learning that you don't just sit there becoming a couch potato.
A Day with Doodles - 1964 A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss 1-6 was released on: USA: 1 January 1964
If a person never stays in one place, he or she never "gathers" or gets attached to things or people. Moss grows on stones which have been on the ground for many years, so a stone which rolls cannot grow moss.
It means someone who does not put down roots and is constantly on the move and comes from the proverb, "A rolling stone gathers no moss."
A rolling stone gathers no moss.