A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other’s key. - Piet Hein

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A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that life is two locked boxes
each containing the other’s key.

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About Piet Hein

Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 18 April 1996) was a Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. He often wrote using the pseudonym Kumbel (Old Norse for "tombstone").

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Alternative Names: Kumbel
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THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES

How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are.

We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas, I know
it would have killed me long ago.

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