Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

Are there not, dear Michal,
Two points in the adventure of the diver,
One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge;
One, when a prince he rises with his pearl?
Festus, I plunge.
.

Paracelsus


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