“The only way to make bereavement tolerable is to make it important. To gather your friends, to have a gloomy festival, to talk, to cry, to praise the dead--all that does change the atmosphere, and carry human nature over the open grave. The nameless torture is to try and treat it as something private and casual.”
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“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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