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• The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
• The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they…
• There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of…
• Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we…
• I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
• The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.
• When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
• I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
• Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.
• What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he…
• Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.
• It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

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