“Loss and Possession, Death and Life are one.
There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

"On the Same" (On a Sundial III)
Quoted by Kevin Smith's character in the film Catch and Release (2006)
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

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writer 1870–1953

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