Bereavement is the source of Beauty 
  Han Yong-un (1879-1944)

Bereavement is the source of beauty.
The beauty of bereavement cannot be found 
   either in the priceless gold of the morning,
      or in the threadless black velvet of night.

Nor can it be found immortal life, nor in an unfolding 
blue sky.
Beloved, without bereavement, after the tears in 
agony of death,

How could I find life and laughter again?
Oh, oh, beauty is the child of bereavement. 

Han Yong-un was born August 29, 1879, in Korea.
A Buddhist monk, poet, and critic of the Japanese colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945.