I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.
Allen GinsbergSometime Iโll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
Allen Ginsberg