“Ah, grief makes us precise!”
Source: Beautiful Losers
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Leonard Cohen169
Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016Related quotes
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Source: King Henry VI, Part 3
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
“Grief dares us to love once more.”
Terry Tempest Williams book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
“Who mourns makes grief his master.
Who drinks makes pleasure his master.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #41 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/41 of a Saga Diary excerpt (Translation: Robert Hass) <br class="br">Statements <br class="br">Context: It rains during the morning. No visitors today. I feel lonely and amuse myself by writing at random. These are the words:<br>Who mourns makes grief his master.<br>Who drinks makes pleasure his master.
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
Mercy Mercy Me.
Song lyrics, What's Going On (1971)
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
The mountains bow before this anguish,
The great river does not flow.
In mortal sadness the convicts languish;
The bolts stay frozen.
Translated by D. M. Thomas
Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Dedication