“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.” MenNeedsForceLossGriefFireObjectsCircumstancesTestsAbsolutesEndureAbsenceSeparationBelovedIndifferenceCrucibleGrief Loss Book:Max Source: Max
“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.” IdeasSometimesHelpingHomeFormForceLosesMy OwnLossGriefWonderBreakGraceSubjectsStrangeSurvivalOrdinarySafetyDeeperDisappearFamiliarOpeningGrantedGrievingRoutineContinuingSheerManhattanStrangenessUnderworldBarbershop Author:Mark Doty
“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.” WorldGivingSelfPlayPainBeautifulFormLeftForceResultsGriefEventsFieldsColdDramaToughProfoundPassionateTrackClarityTelling The TruthGravityGlimpseElegantVividExaminationPartingElementalsIndelibleUnderstatedForce FieldsCenter Of Gravity Author:Chase Twichell
“Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.” PersonsForceFriendshipPerfectGriefExampleVirtuousDistressGood ExamplesEmulationPerfect Friendship Author:Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.” FirstsForceMy OwnGriefAwarenessWasteOceanFirst TimeWeightIndifferentLimitlessBoundlessStarksStranded Author:John Banville
“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.” IfsFirstsMayArtSometimesStoriesForceLinesLevelsGriefLegsLove StoryFlatsCrashAspireSoarLandingRailwayLevels Of Life Author:Julian Barnes
“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.” ArtWarUsePurposeForceGriefCasesIssuesAchieveDependsResourcesPersuasionArt Of War Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.” KnowsMenDoeSoulForceGriefAffliction Author:Frederick William Robertson
“The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.” MenMindStatesBodyDeathForceGriefConsciousnessPlansDevelopmentOrdinaryFamiliarMortalsAttachmentDreadRudeCalmnessIdentificationConquerorOrdinary ManYogiImpositionUnwelcomeInterruptingFortuitousAloofness Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.” KnowsWayEnoughStoriesTogetherGirlForceDarkLove IsGriefPiecesBearsGoldShiningAbsenceCarrieThreadStitchesEmbroideryShining Out Author:Wendell Berry
“Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.” HeartMadeJoyForceGriefPrideMy HeartWasteHatredDistancePreparedTerrorRevengeRageSelfishPursuitCrownsSavagesHelplessness Book:I explain a few things: selected poems Source: I explain a few things: selected poems