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> [“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether I could persist in a world where things—love, violence, pleasure, pain, joy, agony—occur at random. I didn’t think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tran/every-poem-for-me-begins-with-a-question-i-don-t-have-the-answer-to/)

Paul Tran

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## More by Paul Tran

> [“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tran/every-poem-for-me-begins-with-a-question-i-don-t-have-the-answer-to/)

Paul Tran

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