“Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.”
Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 121
“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
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Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942Related quotes
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Context: Everything is changed — for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.
