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The legacy of the knight errant or of a poet's oeuvre lives not in any single deed or inspired turn of phrase, but in the fact that it is a chosen life: it is founded upon a commitment to values and action inspired by the desire for truth and justice, an idea invented by the troubadours in the 13th Century.
—William O'Daly
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

More carpe diem (Cowley)

Beauteous flowers why do we spread
Upon the monuments of the dead?
Nothing they but dust can show,
Or bones that hasten to be so.
Crown me with roses while I live,
Now your wines and ointments give:
After death I nothing crave,
Let me alive my pleasures have:
All are Stoics in the grave.

Abraham Cowley, from The Epicure

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