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A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

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All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force. . . All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

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Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

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