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“Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.”

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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that…

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“And, I think, this greening does thaw at the edges, at least, of my own cold season. Joy sneaks in: listening to music, riding…

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Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

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“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

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