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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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