“(T)he relation of beauty to pain and in particular to loss is [deep] . . . beauty
always bears within it the poignancy of loss. . . .grief and death and beauty call on
us to yearn, and perhaps they call on us to yearn impossibly, to yearn for an object
that is always slipping from our grasp.” — Crispin Sartwell, Six Names of Beauty.
Sartwell, C. (2006). Six names of beauty. New York, NY: Routledge.
This seems so appropriate to the context of a Requiem, a Mass for the Dead.
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