A lover's quarrel

I hold your doctrine of Memento Mori
And were an epitaph to be my story
I’d have a short one ready for my own,
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Nate Note

An oft quoted line of Frost, it ranks with Henry David Thoreau's "The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation." in popularity and profundity. This bit of verse was penned as part of a larger poem entitled The lesson for today just before his death in 1963. The brilliance is how he summarizes the sometimes bitter but mostly passionate nature of life. . . a lover's quarrel. With accurate balance it portrays the reality of life's difficulties and what should be our full bodied, experiential embrace of the mortal experience.

So go! Have your lover's quarrel with the world!