Today I’m starting a new column for Mondays: a quote for the week.
Unlike the quotes from the month series, it will be a prospective quotation: a quotation to live into.
The first is from Shakespeare. Why not start at the top, hey? This one’s a favourite, and today I find its spirit running through my veins.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.Julius Caesar (Act IV, Scene 3, l.216)
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Images: “Our magic hour” by New York artist, Ugo Rondinone, installed at Richmond, Melbourne just across the river from where I live (photographed by my very talented friend, Emma)
