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Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief.
Donald Hall • The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski - All Poetry
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The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
You can’t tell when strange things with meaning... See more
will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.
Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective
through the yearbook carefully from cover to cover looking for him. He isn’t in any group picture or on any list of names.