Grief
Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief.
Donald Hall • The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
The word selah (Hebrew: ) — “to pause, reflect, and feel meaning” — appears almost seventy times in the poetry of the Psalms. Grief by its nature is poetical, elegiac. And poetry, like grief, is subversive, unbridled, and disobedient. Poetry violates linguistic norms because it must. Poetry helps us feel. And when we allow ourselves to feel that
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