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“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”

Book:Space, in Chains

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Space, in Chains

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Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke is an American writer known for her poetry and novels. Her works often explore themes of personal identity, memory, and emotion. Born in 1961, Kasischke began her writing career in the 1980s. more

“Who says that all must vanish? Who knows, perhaps the flight of the bird you wound remains, and perhaps flowers survive caresses in us, in their ground. It isn't the gesture that lasts, but it dresses you again in gold armor--from breast to knees-- and the battle was so pure an Angel wears it after you.”

Death Poetry Memories Loss Grief Poem Memory Mourning

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Meanwhile there was work to do: raising our children, wading through a mass of legal papers, finances, and taxes, and recovering the professional life that was now our sole support, while, at a subterranean level, feeling adrift in dark, unknown waters. And though I'd flared with anger when the priest at Heinz's funeral had warned not to be "angry at God" because of his sudden and violent death, I struggled not to sink under currents of fear, anger, and confusion that roiled an ocean of grief.”

Life Death Fear Loss Grief Anger Confusion Mourning

Book:Why Religion? A Personal Story

Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story

“He never talked about his mother--and I had learned never to ask--but I sometimes sensed her absence in his reactions to certain events, as if he knew even then that there existed under everything a universal grief.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning

Book:The Age of Miracles

Source: The Age of Miracles

“How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Memory Mourning Remembering

Author:Czesław Miłosz

“...The day was meant for what ineffable creature we must have missed?”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning

Author:Elizabeth Bishop

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