Comment by scmoore

It's been a long time since my last college English class, but I enjoyed Derek Walcott:

"...I loved them, my children, my wife, my home;

I loved them as poets love the poetry

that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea."

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177932

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott