“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Four VII
is 5 (1926)
“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”
— Thomas Browne, book Christian Morals
Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)
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