And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—
[They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—
[They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?



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"Je crois qu'on peut se perfectionner toute sa vie."
("I believe that one can improve oneself all one's life.")
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

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Friends and Fellow Artists






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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you."-- T.S. Eliot
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