Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. – Paul Eldridge

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. – Paul Eldridge
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. – Paul Eldridge
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. – Paul Eldridge
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. – Wislawa Szymborska