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> [“I will still feel some importance in altering the room, because there you were, the pastiche of some lovely distant star as I surrounded only my small self, still alive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/i-will-still-feel-some-importance-in-altering-the-room-because-there/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

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## More by Michael Burkard

> [“The life of comparison is deadly. One is always more than or less than and it is based upon a brief proof which tends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/the-life-of-comparison-is-deadly-one-is-always-more-than-or-less-than/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“There, by that water which is also beyond, two black wings turn in their mirror, the mirror the tree makes above them, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/there-by-that-water-which-is-also-beyond-two-black-wings-turn-in/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“Think of the letters which have placed you nowhere, have given you something lonely, and the restraint of all anger at loneliness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/think-of-the-letters-which-have-placed-you-nowhere-have-given-you/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“I will still feel some importance in altering the room, because there you were, the pastiche of some lovely distant star as I surrounded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/i-will-still-feel-some-importance-in-altering-the-room-because-there/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“oh candlelight upon your face, oh sad shadow of screen across your breast, oh love of life in my shadow— these, and the winter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/oh-candlelight-upon-your-face-oh-sad-shadow-of-screen-across-your/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“Sometimes it gets lonely here, the sea water collapses out beyond the horizon like the dream I thought I understood, only to find waking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/sometimes-it-gets-lonely-here-the-sea-water-collapses-out-beyond-the/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

> [“I can’t stop writing you. You, the pleasure which exiled me for awhile. You of the whom dream, the bell swinging with echoes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-burkard/i-can-t-stop-writing-you-you-the-pleasure-which-exiled-me-for-awhile/)

[Michael Burkard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-burkard/)

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