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> [What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real and important in themselves as wars and lovers... It is to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-silliman/what-s-happening-is-the-language-not-only-in-the-usual-sense-of-being/)

Ron Silliman

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## Other authors on Chasms

## More by Ron Silliman

> [BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-silliman/before-there-was-billy-collins-ted-kooser-there-was-edgar-guest/)

Ron Silliman

> [Here, for a moment, we are joined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-silliman/here-for-a-moment-we-are-joined/)

Ron Silliman

> [The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-silliman/the-poem-is-not-only-the-point-of-origin-for-all-the-language-and/)

Ron Silliman

> [What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-silliman/what-s-happening-is-the-language-not-only-in-the-usual-sense-of-being/)

Ron Silliman

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