"For if poetry has the power to make the naught resound, if it has the power to house, bury, and commune with the dead, it is because its rhythms, accents, and elegiac tones have their elemental source in human grief. If the transmutation of the earth into invisiblity is at bottom a poetic task, and if we have the ability to undertake such a task, it is because human beings are veterans of mourning." -Robert Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead
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