And of course, how can we forget Tennyson’s Ulysses?
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
… -- you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
EDIT: dang it, what is up with this lesswrong markdown? br tags don’t work, and I need to add some non-quoted text between quoted fragments? And I thought normal markdown was messed up for ignoring newlines in quoted text!
Hm, that seems to work, thanks. It’s still one giant quote, visually, but at least there’s a full blank line between each quote which helps to break them up.
And the accompanying song: “Untraveled Worlds” by Paul Halley. The song has lots of sentimental value to me because I sang it in choir when I was in sixth grade. Out of ten years’ worth of songs, I chose to have the choir sing it again during my last year of high school.
I would also quote:
Come, my friends,
’T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
Reminds me of the prophecy from HPMOR: “the one who will tear apart the very stars in heaven”. It’s just so utterly epic. And I’m not even the space-travel type!
And of course, how can we forget Tennyson’s Ulysses?
EDIT: dang it, what is up with this lesswrong markdown? br tags don’t work, and I need to add some non-quoted text between quoted fragments? And I thought normal markdown was messed up for ignoring newlines in quoted text!
Putting a double space after each line should break it; I had the same problem with poetry.
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Hm, that seems to work, thanks. It’s still one giant quote, visually, but at least there’s a full blank line between each quote which helps to break them up.
I came here just to post “Ulysses”!
And the accompanying song: “Untraveled Worlds” by Paul Halley. The song has lots of sentimental value to me because I sang it in choir when I was in sixth grade. Out of ten years’ worth of songs, I chose to have the choir sing it again during my last year of high school.
I would also quote:
Reminds me of the prophecy from HPMOR: “the one who will tear apart the very stars in heaven”. It’s just so utterly epic. And I’m not even the space-travel type!