Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.
The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.
As a parent you have to do some renunciation.
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
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