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mk  ·  4383 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Has a Poem Ever Changed Your Life? - or given you a pause?

Not a poem, but a couple of lines from As You Like It:

    And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

I think about mortality more than I'd like, and this verse always stays with me. I suppose that it has a similar message to the The Swimmer's Moment, at least that's why I remember it.