Long, long ago, before I was a tormented artist, afflicted with longing yet
incapable of forming durable attachments, long before this, I was a glorious
ruler uniting all of a divided country—so I was told by the fortune-teller
who examined my palm.
Great things, she said, are ahead of you, or perhaps
behind you; it is difficult to be sure.
And yet, she added, what is the difference?
Right now you are a child holding hands with a fortune-teller.
All the rest is hypothesis and dream.
Louise Gluck
incapable of forming durable attachments, long before this, I was a glorious
ruler uniting all of a divided country—so I was told by the fortune-teller
who examined my palm.
Great things, she said, are ahead of you, or perhaps
behind you; it is difficult to be sure.
And yet, she added, what is the difference?
Right now you are a child holding hands with a fortune-teller.
All the rest is hypothesis and dream.
Louise Gluck
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