<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Saints</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In our family, there were two saints,<br>my aunt and my grandmother.<br>But their lives were different.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My grandmother's was tranquil, even at the end.<br>She was like a person walking in calm water;<br>for some reason<br>the sea couldn't bring itself to hurt her.<br>When my aunt took the same path,<br>the waves broke over her, they attacked her,<br>which is how the Fates respond<br>to a true spiritual nature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My grandmother was cautious, conservative:<br>that's why she escaped suffering.<br>My aunt's escaped nothing;<br>each time the sea retreats, someone she loves is taken away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still she won't experience<br>the sea as evil. To her, it is what it is:<br>where it touches land, it must turn to violence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Gluck">Louise Gluck</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450065" data-title="Saints de Louise Gluck" data-description="In our family, there were two saints, my aunt and my grandmother. But their lives were different. My grandmother's was tranquil, even at the end. She was like a person walking in calm water; for some reason the sea couldn't bring itself to hurt h..."></div> </div> </div>

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