The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer to what we're hearing, enlarging our experience of it, enabling us to describe what we're reading, to feel and think with greater precision.

It is their loss. I try to add something to each place I work for. Unfortunately all of my experience is overseas. If someone will check my experience in the companies I worked for, they will know that I am very capable.

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.