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1 " There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes. "

2 " I haven’t felt the full weight
of the world on my shoulders,
and I haven’t experienced
a fraction of the pain
and embarrassment I’ve put out into this great big
white world. "

― Kris Kidd , Down for Whatever

3 " The life-loving, smart,good-hearted deaddon't want forty days of mourningor say, " After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things- a few words, a tree, a smile -each gets up and goesand does not burden the livingwith the darkness of the tomb,carrying the weightof his stone all alone.And because they ask for nothingfrom the living, it's as if they aren't d "

4 " This bed yawns
beneath the weight
of our absent selves. "

― Maya Angelou , The Complete Collected Poems