See Life steadily, see it whole.

 

See Life steadily, see it whole.
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My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild: Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. —Matthew Arnold, "To a Friend" from The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849)

 

Kenneth Rexroth

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My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul,
From first youth tested up to extreme old age,
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild;
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

 

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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect — connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.

 

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