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• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of…
• What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and…
• Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the…
• I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it.
• From what we cannot hold, the stars are made.
• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
• I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is…
• This is what I have heard at last the wind in December lashing the old trees with rain unseen rain racing along…
• We are the echo of the future.
• When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you…
• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly…
• I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

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