L89:

Loss is perhaps the ultimate philosophical problem --- and death, only incidentally and to the extent it is experienced as loss by those who remain alive. The great absolute architectonics of systematic thought are intended to secure the world against loss. Maturity is achieved when things are let go, left to be on their own, allowed their specificity; for although they become then most fully themselves, they become then most fully losable. To abandon classical system is to accept, in the sense of comprehend, the ontological necessity of loss. The more precious a thing is, the greater becomes its power to hurt us by simply being absent. We end up 'leaving each thing as it is' in two senses of the word 'leave'.

- from Jan Zwicky's Lyric Philosophy.

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