may have been subjected to thus far, they don't yet seem to have caught up with this life of perpetual partings."Sentimentality," wrote the lawyer-poet Wallace Stevens, "is failed feeling," and, if Stevens was right, it seems I am a man whose feelings fail a great deal . . . or else I simply prefer Emily Dickinson's sentiment that "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."
from West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Michael Blumenthal on saying goodbye
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