GRIEF January 17, 2007
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Robert Frost wrote no poems about his personal sorrows and cautioned another writer to write about anything else in the world save her own personal grief. “It must be kept way down under the surface where great griefs belong,” he wrote.
GRIEF July 14, 2006
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Paul Lefebvre, who writes for my favorite Vermont weekly, the Chronicle, has been writing about the death of his longtime partner, and said in a recent column: “Over the last few months I have learned that grief takes many forms and can come over you when you least expect it. Without warning, you drop emotionally through a trap door. It’s on those mornings, or sometimes evenings when the heat of day still clings to the air, that the thrush’s song reminds me that after so much sorrow comes joy; that grief comes and goes with a force all its own; and that the passion of loss like the passion of love is as inevitable as the rising and setting of the sun.”
