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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me…
— Boethius
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that…
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of…
— Lynn Freed
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects…
— Susan Sontag
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore…
— Richard Russo
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Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling…
— Harold Bloom
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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history…
— Charlie Pierce
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