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“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be one of the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”
-Socrates
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Death and Dying, Fear Death, Poem, Poetry, Socrates
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“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman sees the good fortune in dying
I fell in love with the poems of Walt Whitman in high school, and to this day I still have my worn-out copy of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, peppered with bookmarks of my favorite pieces. One of these … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Death, Leaves of Grass, Poetry, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
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“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
-Vladimir Nabokov
“They Are All Gone Into the World of Light” by Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan's poem offers an inspiring look at death
The ten-year anniversary of September 11th, 2001 is just six days from now, and because of that, I wanted to choose a piece of literature that really captured the feelings of our nation after these tragic events took place. Well, … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged 9/11, Death, Henry Vaughan, Poetry, They Are All Gone into the World of Light
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“From a Train Window” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Nature reminds us that death is part of her poetry
When I was fourteen, my family went on a vacation to Ireland. We drove through the much-too-small roads in a much-too-big rental car: a Mercedes van that seated ten. It sometimes felt perilous weaving through quaint little towns in … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Cemeteries, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Graves, Nature, Poetry
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