Quote
Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.
Note
In this tender closing to her poem 'Remember,' Rossetti releases a loved one from the burden of sorrowful memory. She values their happiness over her own remembrance, suggesting that a joyful forgetfulness is kinder than painful recollection. This quiet generosity invites us to consider how we might hold others lightly, wishing them well rather than binding them to grief.