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• A word is elegy to what it signifies.
• It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
• Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we…
• Golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism.
• It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
• Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
• Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet
• The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
• All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking
• I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in…
• The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

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