"I think compassion, in a way, is one of the most important things poems do for me, and I trust do for other people. They allow us to feel how shared our fates are. If a person reads this poem when they're inside their own most immediate loss, they immediately — I hope — feel themselves accompanied. 'Someone else has been here. Someone else has felt what I felt'. And, you know, we know this in our minds, but that's very different from being accompanied by the words of a poem, which are not ideas but are experiences." (Jane Hirschfield)
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