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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A Greek word, storge, denotes a tender care, affection uniting parents and children. Perhaps some teachers feel such a love for their pupils. It is also not impossible that storge may be applied to the relationship between a poet and generations of readers to come: underneath the ambition to perfect one’s art without hope of being rewarded by contemporaries lurks a magnanimity of gift-offering to posterity.

—CZESLAW MILOSZ

A Book of Luminous Things

At Laguna, when someone dies, you don’t “get over it” by forgetting; you “get over it” by remembering.

—LESLIE MARMON SILKO

The Delicacy and Strength of Lace