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Grief, grief, I suppose and sufficient
Grief makes us free
To be faithless and faithful together
As we have to be.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British poet. Hymn to Priapus (l. 57-60). . .
The Complete Poems [D. H. Lawrence]. Vivian de Sola Pinto and Warren Roberts, eds. (1993) Penguin Books.)
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Grief, have I denied thee?
Grief, I have denied thee.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Lamentation.")
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After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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Some crave grief like strong drink.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage,
(Fulke Greville (1554-1628), British poet, and Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1540-1607), British poet. Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney (attributed to Greville) (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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In all the silent manliness of grief.
(Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Anglo-Irish author. The Deserted Village, l. 384 (1770).)
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Like love, grief fades in and out.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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A grief without a pant, void, dark, and drear,
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Dejection; an Ode (l. 21). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Grief thief of time crawls off....
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Grief thief of time.")
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Come little babe, come silly soul,
Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
(Nicholas Breton (1542-1626), British poet. Come, little babe, come, silly soul (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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