Yeats

Pouring milk into the fire, a Hindu ritual, signified the understanding that what appears disappears and that what disappears gives sustenance to something else, the invisible.

A poet friend says the phrase often used at a funeral, "life must go on," should be changed to, "death must go on."

Truth is an unnatural state for man says the man who's studied truth most of his life, immediately after he's read The Vedas and The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

"We begin to live when we conceive of life as a tragedy," Yeats wrote.