Thought for the Day

Love's last urgency is earth

and grief is all gravity [. . . .]

~ Christian Wiman

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Quoted from Christian Wiman's poem "Love's Last" from Once in the West

Christian Wiman, Poet and Writer, Essayist, Translator, Editor; Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature, Yale Institute of Sacred Music

Wiman's most recent collection of poetry is Once in the West (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, September 2014).