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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…
• Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
• All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
• 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,…
• No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
• Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
• To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though…
• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what…
• One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the…
• We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.
• The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing,…

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