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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

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We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

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That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

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I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.

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I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

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The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

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