From “Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert:
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It’s the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
and…
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.
