“I don't reproach the spring for starting up again. I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.” LossGriefSorrowSpringGreenMourningSpringtimeGreenness Book:View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
“My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.” HappinessDeathPoetryTimeChanceLossGriefPoemMourningNecessity Book:View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems