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A poem, too, may remind poet and reader alike of what is remembered or ought to be remembered—as in elegies, poems of history, love poems, celebrations of nature, poems of praise or worship, or poems as prayers. One of the functions of the music or formality of poetry is to make memorable. Even the rhyme beginning “Thirty days hath September” has the dignity of indispensability.

“To have everything but money is to have much.”

RIP to this wise saint ❤️

“Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe of the planet or the nation or the institutions or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, ‘the least of these my brethren.’ Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.”

"the task of healing is to respect oneself as a creature, no more and no less"