Listen. I’m going to try one more time. I don’t promise anything will come of it, or that I won’t try to put it off for as long as possible.… And then when I’m finished perhaps I’ll be finished for good.
“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
Walter Savage Landor | “Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher”