This is Tyler’s tattoo from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life“.
Life is real! Life is earnest
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
I got it because this poem has always spoken volumes to me and serves more or less as my maxim for living life day to day.
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If I should ever get a literary tattoo, I’ve set my heart to have these “Psalm of Life” lines:
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
We should be friends. =) I adore Longfellow, and I love this tattoo!
There were so many lines in the poem I wanted to get, so it was really hard to decide on just one passage. If I could have gotten the whole thing I definitely would have haha.
Wonderful font :)
What font is this? I’ve found it really difficult to find one with an ‘f’ that I like. This one works really well.
Love it. This is an amazing poem; it helped me get through my uncle’s death last summer.
This is my very favorite poem. Beautiful.