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• A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing…
• The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a…
• We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
• Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let…
• Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.
• Be young forever, seasons of the earth.
• What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
• It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
• Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it…
• The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
• I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy
• The soul exceeds its circumstances.

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