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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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