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- Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
- There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
- This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all…
- Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
- The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance…
- Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,…
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