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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
