Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)
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Quotations by:
FitzGerald, Edward
The King in a carriage may ride,
And the Beggar may crawl at his side;
But in the general race,
They are traveling all the same pace.Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 57ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)
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I am all for the short and merry life.
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
Letter to Frederick Tennyson (31 Dec 1850)
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Later his epitaph.
Leave well — even “pretty well” — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.
Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883) English writer, poet, translator
Letter to W. F. Pollock (7 Dec 1869)
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