One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The … - Robert Hass

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one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Robert Hass

One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

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It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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The birds are silent in the woods.
Just wait: soon enough
You will be quiet too

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