“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
…
Marry, marry
quite contrary.
How does a garden grow?
With silver linings
and seashells
and com
-promise when you
have a row.
Mr. Schopenhauer,
don’t dis the bliss;
from where I sit,
it can be amazing.
But see, here’s the thing
(perhaps you missed):
You have to water it.
..
quickly prompted
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Forgot to add the prompt quote, until after I published. If you got the poem via email, it didn’t make much sense. 😉
Very nice 😀
So true! You can’t expect anything to grow without first nourishing and nurturing it 🙂
So true. Everything in life requires maintenance – absolutely everything.
I think I’d be more sympathetic to this quote if it was by a woman! Alas, I see that he only shared his life with poodles – what could he possibly really know about marriage 🙂 ?
I love this poem.