Quotes About Loss

Only poetry can address grief.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.

That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break.

Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar, My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

The color of the flower has faded, while I lost myself in idle thought in this long rain / ???? ??????? ????? ??????? ???????

I miss you, I miss you at night, I can't sleep without you anymore, I'm scared. Meet me in heaven.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

To think of losing is to lose already.

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.