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What does it mean?
Completion is the ultimate failure.
In plain terms
Human effort is unfinished.
What can you take from it?
Accept limits.

Where it applies

  • creation
  • work
  • critique

Putting it to work

  • design
  • writing
  • education

Questions to consider

  • What work stays open?
  • Why is completion hard?

Another view

Completion can be a goal.

More from Robert Browning

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  3. Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

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