Between one dip of the pen and the next
Good afternoon (or whenever this reaches you), the sun is shining here in London and I’m going to send you one more quote related to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. This one is from the book itself. And I feel like I want to apologise, because it’s quite a sombre quote. I can’t help it though. It spoke to something in me, I find it both refreshing and uplifting.
Here it is:
“Petrarch writes, ‘between one dip of the pen and the next, the time passes: and I hurry, I drive myself, and I speed towards death. We are always dying – I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or block their ears; they are all dying.’
What do you make of it? To me it speaks of the importance of savouring the here and now, of making the most of what we have.
– Quote from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
– Photo by Kira auf der Heide on Unsplash