John Berger Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

  John Berger

  Loss, Space, Together

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.96, Vintage

• When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

  John Berger

  Grief, Loss, Childhood

  John Berger (2011). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.122, Vintage

• What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

  John Berger

  Loss, Might, Would Be

  John Berger (2014). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

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