Not by
lamentations and mournful chants ought we to
celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns,
for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters
upon the heritage of a diviner life.
-- Plutarch
46-120 AD, Greek
Essayist, Biographer
Thank
Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the
lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever
called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American
Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Good
God! how often are we to die before we go quite off
this stage? In every friend we lose a part of
ourselves, and the best part.
-- Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British
Poet, Critic, Translator
There
are few things more difficult than to appraise the
work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to
disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save
him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the
tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the
work actually performed.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American
Poet, Critic
