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In his famous “Letter”, Epicurus writes to his young friend Menoeceus that “Death is nothing” — either to fear or to hope for.1 This counsel further suggests that death is not something one can claim as his/her own, and that even its contemplation brings “a craving for immortality”, and so, loosens the fragile hold we have on the life of the soul.
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“Letter To Menoeceus”, Epicurus, Transi. C. Bailey, (Oxford Univ. Press, 1926).
“Pythian Odes”, Pindar. Transi. R. Lattimore, (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1949), p. 62.
Being And Time, Heidegger, Transi. J. Macquarrie, p. 437.
Quoted in Phenomenology and Literature, R. Magliola, (Purdue University Press, 1977), p. 75.
“Lines” Wordsworth, from Prelude, Collected Poems and Sonnets, Edit. C. Baker, Rinehart, 1948, p. 99.
“Ode to Intimations of Immortality”, Wordsworth, Ibid., p. 152.
“Preface, Lyric Ballads”, Wordsworth, Ibid., p. 25.
Either/Or, S. Kierkegaard, Quoted in Kierkegaard, R. Bretall, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1947), p. xxvi.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Trans. D Swenson and W. Lowrie, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1941), p. 169.
Duino Elegies, Rilke, Trans. A Poulin, Jr. Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1977.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 5, First Elegy, 1.18.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 5, First Elegy, 1.10.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 13, Second Elegy, 1.10/17 ff.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 31, Fourth Elegy, 1.76 ff.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 61, Ninth Elegy, 1.1 ff.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 61, Ninth Elegy, 1.7 ff.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 65, Ninth Elegy, 1.68 ff.
“Sonnets to Orpheus”, Rilke, op. cit. p. 107, # 12.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 109, #13.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 111, #14.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 111, #14.
Rilke, Ibid., p. 113, #15.
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Kimmel, L. (1990). Death, and the Elemental Passion of the Soul: An Ancient Philosophical Thesis, with Poetic Counterpoint . In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Elemental Passions of the Soul Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: Part 3. Analecta Husserliana, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2335-5_16
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