<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415028" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Failing and Flying</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.<br>It's the same when love comes to an end,<br>or the marriage fails and people say<br>they knew it was a mistake, that everybody<br>said it would never work. That she was <br>old enough to know better. But anything<br>worth doing is worth doing badly.<br>Like being there by that summer ocean<br>on the other side of the island while<br>love was fading out of her, the stars <br>burning so extravagantly those nights that<br>anyone could tell you they would never last.<br>Every morning she was asleep in my bed<br>like a visitation, the gentleness in her<br>like antelope standing in the dawn mist.<br>Each afternoon I watched her coming back<br>through the hot stony field after swimming,<br>the sea light behind her and the huge sky<br>on the other side of that. Listened to her<br>while we ate lunch. How can they say <br>the marriage failed? Like the people who<br>came back from Provence (when it was Provence)<br>and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.<br>I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,<br>but just coming to the end of his triumph.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jack+Gilbert">Jack Gilbert</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415028" data-title="Failing and Flying de Jack Gilbert" data-description="Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It's the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth ..."></div> </div> </div>

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