Doctrine Stare

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“You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddest and most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,—in winter expecting the sun of spring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you’ve missed.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)