Quote #130094
Angels are quite ample cause to cry...
Nicholas Gordon
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Taken on its own, the line suggests that the very idea of angels—figures associated with purity, protection, and the supernatural—can provoke tears without any further tragedy being required. The crying implied here may be grief, awe, gratitude, or the overwhelming tenderness that comes from contemplating innocence or grace. It also hints at a paradox: angels are conventionally consoling, yet their perfection can sharpen human awareness of loss, longing, or moral insufficiency. As a fragment with an ellipsis, it reads like the opening of a larger meditation, where “angels” function less as doctrine than as a poetic emblem for whatever is unbearably beautiful or consolingly unreal.




