Quote #96424
Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.
Neil Gaiman
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The lines read like an incantatory set of imperatives—an exhortation to live expansively and without undue caution. The sequence moves from intimacy and joy (“Kiss a lover,” “Dance a measure”) to self-discovery and adventure (“Find your name / And buried treasure”), then to an unsentimental acceptance of experience in full (“Face your life, / It’s pain, / It’s pleasure”). The closing command, “Leave no path untaken,” frames life as a landscape of choices where regret is avoided not by certainty but by willingness: to love, to risk, to seek, and to endure. The rhyme and rhythm reinforce the sense of a charm or blessing meant to be remembered and acted upon.




