
“Every love story is a potential grief story.”
Source: Levels of Life
"City of My Youth" (1984)
Context: Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him
And every shame, every grief, every love.
If ever we accede to enlightenment,
He thought, it is in one compassionate moment
When what separated them from me vanishes
And a shower of drops from a bunch of lilacs
Pours on my face, and hers, and his, at the same time.
“Every love story is a potential grief story.”
Source: Levels of Life
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”
“In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.”
I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).