I have chosen these sections of this great work because they are the ones that make me think the most, yet appreciate what I have, where I’ve been and where I am going. I believe what this poem says is that, while it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

“Ulysses” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
…
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’
Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
…
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
…
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will;
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

I welcome your thoughts and insight. Thank you for taking the time to read this and all my posts.

Jennifer Mott