Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed. - Osip Mandelstam

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I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.

Osip Mandelstam

Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.

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The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

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Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that's left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they're still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey.

Heart, Hive, Home, Life, Moving, Night

Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors.

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My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

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Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do

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