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• The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.
• Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like…
• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and…
• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
• The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with…
• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy…
• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows…
• How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers…
• A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an…

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