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John Updike
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do
John Updike
Louise Erdrich
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
“Clutch your chest. Fall off that horse,” they dir
Louise Erdrich
Sófocles
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Now let the weeping cease; / Let no one mourn agai
Sófocles
Alexander Pope
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, / W
Alexander Pope
Thomas Mann
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not
Thomas Mann
Thomas Fuller
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
To weep excessively for the dead is to affront the
Thomas Fuller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my busines
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Dickinson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
The vastest earthly Day / Is shrunken small / By o
Emily Dickinson