Ye weep for those who weep? she said,

Ah, fools! I bid you pass them by.

Go weep for those whose hearts have bled

What time their eyes were dry.

Whom sadder can I say? she said.

E. B. Browning (The Mask).

See also Seneca (Hipp.), Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent, “Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.”


Star unto star speaks light.