If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us, /saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble, /how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?Kay Ryan
About This Quote
This quote comes from the poem "The Seafarer" by the English poet William Wordsworth. The poem is one of the best known poems by Wordsworth and deals with the emotions and feelings that come with loss and grieving. In this particular quote, he is talking about how we can learn to love and fight for the people we care about most. It is not always possible to return to those we lost.
Sometimes we can never be together again. However, we can learn to love them as if they were still here as well as fight as if they were there with us.
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