Monday, December 20, 2010

Robert Browning

Is it when we experience regret for having stopped our own heart from beating that these quotes, by Robert Browning, grow stronger by their meaning? 

And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost 

Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.

 

There, that is our secret: go to sleep!  You will wake, and remember, and understand.


Death was past, life not come: so he waited.


Live now: Time is as indifferent as it is impartial.  - that's one from me. 

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