“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”

Source: Selected Poems

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Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator 1934–2014

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Context: I have been thinking about our conversation and about your book, and I am afraid that I expressed myself badly yesterday. When I said that one may love and be loved at any age I ought to have added that sometimes this love comes too late. It comes when one no longer has the right to prove to the loved one how much she is loved, except by love's sacrifice.