I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a sense of disappointment about the lack of order or reason in life.
In this quote, Edmund Spenser expresses a deep frustration with the unpredictability and chaos of existence. Despite having been promised clarity and purpose—symbolized by 'reason for my rhyme'—the speaker feels robbed of both rhyme and reason, suggesting that life can often feel nonsensical and without explanation, leaving an individual in a state of bewilderment and disillusionment.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the unpredictability of life during a philosophical gathering.
But O the exceeding grace_x000D_ Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,_x000D_ And all his works with mercy doth embrace,_x000D_ That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,_x000D_ To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; _x000D_ For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.
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