“From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory;
One thing then learned remains to me —
The woodspurge has a cup of three.”
The Woodspurge http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/roset03.html#3, st. 4 (1870).
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti33
English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882Related quotes
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tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163 http://books.google.com/books?q=isbn%3A9780389203933+%22A+man+may+learn+wisdom+even+from+a+foe%22+Aristophanes <br class="br">Birds, line 375-382 (our emphasis on 375 and 378-379 and 382) <br class="br">Compare the later: "We can learn even from our enemies", Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV, 428. <br class="br">Birds (414 BC)
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