Adjustable Buckle Back Khaki Tan Beige Black Embroidered Lettering Stay Gold is a phrase used in the classic book The Outsiders In his dying breaths, he implores Ponyboy to “stay gold” — to continue to be good no matter the situation and always look for the right thing to do in any circumstance … regardless of how hard it may be. Stay Gold is also a Japanese BTS song There is a Robert Frost poem called Nothing Gold Can Stay. Frost is not being entirely pessimistic in his poem; he is saying only that it is the “gold” in things which cannot last, their brightest, “hardest hue to hold.” The potential of a human life is only met once and not met again, according to the poem.