“We live in a superficial, media-driven culture that often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. Indeed, it seems as if our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away. We want to divide it into recognizable stages so that grief can be labeled, tamed, and put behind us.”
― How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
Medicate such sorrow away | QOTW

It would appear that things have gotten worse in the 20+ years since he published that volume. Warmest regards, Theo
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