A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #43

“. . . So fate requires

That all things whirl to ruin, slip behind,

Like one who rows his skiff against the current,

Touch and go: if once his arms ease off,

The current sweeps him headlong down the stream.”

— from Virgil’s Georgics, Book I, translated by Smith Palmer Bovie

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