So little time we live in Time,_x000D_ _x000D_ And we learn all so painfully,_x000D_ _x000D_ That we may spare this hour's term_x000D_ _x000D_ To practice for Eternity.
Interpretation
Life is short, and we learn through difficult experiences in order to prepare for a greater existence beyond this life.
This quote reflects on the brevity of human life and the often painful lessons we encounter throughout our existence. It emphasizes the importance of using our limited time effectively, suggesting that the struggles we face serve a purpose in preparing us for a more eternal and significant state of being beyond our mortal existence.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of life lessons, one might quote, 'So little time we live in time...' to stress the urgency of learning and growth.
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youβve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do β mostly with my time.
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