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• Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
• There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…
• Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
• In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses…
• All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
• No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

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