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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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