Old cemeteries, whether grave sites of literary types or not, are wonderful places to find serenity of mind. Discovered this many years ago in Lisbon where I was exhausted by the noise, and the stress of not knowing Portuguese. Suddenly, an hour in an old cemetery allowed me to gain some perspective about being a foreigner, and to appreciate the foreignness of my situation rather than wish for something more familiar. Never forgot the lesson. Never stopped strolling through cemeteries.