24 All-Star Readers on the Words That Rock Their Worlds
Rosanne Cash
I have read
Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb" dozens of times, and I never fail to be deeply moved by it. I am unsettled and intrigued by the last stanza, which
I have used to describe my parents: "Time has transfigured them into / Untruth. The stone fidelity / They hardly meant has come to be / Their final blazon, and to prove / Our almost-instinct almost true: / What will survive of us is love."
From the
April 2011 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
