Odin has been gagging a lot

It sounds like he is choking on rawhide, but since he hasn't eaten any in years, that's not it.
Sometimes he gags stuff up - spit stuff that goes on my carpet which my bare feet never, ever touch.
He's breathing loud at night too.
T thinks he has less energy, but I think he is still him.

Odin's eulogy

I'm trying to come up, ahead of time, with what his memorial stone should say. It has to be perfect because it's for Odin.
I can't write anything better than famous authors, so I'm reviewing all my favorite meaningful quotes.

So far I have for line 1:
Odonata - 6/21/1999 - x/xx/2009

Option 1:
"I get up. I walk. I fall down.
Meanwhile, I keep dancing."

Option 2:
"But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in all the world.
To you, I shall be unique in all the world."

Option 3:
"Round and round he walked, and
so learned a very valuable thing:
that no emotion is the final one."

Option 4:
"That is how she felt without him,
feeling his presence where he no longer was."

Option 5 (one by me):
Odin lithe and supple
slinking, sliding, prancing now
he moves like liquid

Option 6:
I loved Odin "more than I had reasons for.
- which I know now to be the only way to love,
without conditions or explanations."

Option 7:
"Let us go then, you and I, when the
evening is spread out against the sky ...
[for] indeed there will be time."

I haven't decided yet on a stone or the wall (with his ashes), at Marymoor:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/recreation/parks/inventory/marymoor/petgarden.aspx