"One cannot lose what one has not possessed." So much for that abrasive gem. I can lose what I want. I want you. - Geoffrey Hill

Thus I grind to conclusion.

I think intelligence has a kind of range of sense and allows us to contemplate the coexistence of the conceptual aspect of thought and the emotional aspect of thought as ideally wedded, troth-plight, and the circumstances in which this troth-plight can be effected are to be found in the medium of language itself.

The years will not
answer for what they have done, that much is
certain. There is no shaking them, we
might have foreseen this but refused.