2:19-20
Epistle to the Galatians
“It was not
I who lived, but life rather
that lived me.”
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Frequencies (1978)
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Welsh poet 1913–2000Related quotes
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At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.