Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Making a Life

The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life. 

– Seamus Heaney, Elegy for Robert Lowell, 1979


4 comments:

  1. And you must be bold, so that you can earn Seamus Heaney's approval.

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  2. Perhaps better: "And we must be bold, so that we can earn . . ."

    Of course, correcting oneself isn't very bold . . . OOPS!

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  3. The tautologies we make,
    apt or otherwise
    will have been the tautologies we made.

    /poetry, I guess

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  4. Holy cow, I actually agree with G Verloren for once

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