The statement “The reader must
understand the author s position in order to use the source correctly” is true.
It would be disheartening to know that when you have presented a great work and
found out that you are not citing the authors’ work or did not mentioned him at
all.
frost means that a person's hardest work will eventually have a fruitful result which he refers as 'gold'. But eventually it would also have to disappear as nothing in this world stays forever.