“- Why do someone have to die?
- Leonard…
- In your book you said someone had to die.
- Hmm.
- Why? Is that a stupid question?
- No!
- I imagine my question is stupid.
- Not at all.
- Well?
- Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. It’s a contrast.
- And who will die? Tell me.
- The poet will die. The visionary.”

“The Hours”