"All lives are composed of two basic elements,"……" — Peter S. Beagle

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose… - Peter S. Beagle
"All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry."

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