For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- People of all statuses dream blindly and suffer from uncertainty rather than accepting reality.
- In plain terms
- Everyone dreams and suffers without knowing the truth.
- What can you take from it?
- Ignorance often leads to suffering.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do you prefer truth or comfortable illusions?
- What do you starve for?
Another view
It generalizes human behavior without nuance.
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